Diminutives

[Nicole L. Wilson]

A few weeks ago I posted request for references on diminutives.  Thank you
to all that replied!  For those who are interested, the following is a
complied reference list.  (This is not meant to be an exhaustive list by
any means!)

Ceccherini, M., Bonifacio, S., & Zocconi, E. (1997). Acquisition of
diminutives in Italian. In W.U. Dressler (Ed.) Studies in pre- and
protomorphology (pp. 157-164). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Clark, E. & Svaib, T. (1997) Speaker perspective and reference in young
children. First Language, (49), p. 57-74.

Derwing, B.L. (1976). Morpheme recognition and the learning of rules for
derivational morphology. Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 21, 38-66.

Fernald, A., & Morikawa, H. (1993). Common themes and cultural variations
in Japanese and American mothers' speech to infants. Child Development,
64, 637-656.

Dressler, W.U. & Barbaresi, L. M. (1994). Morphopragmatics. Berlin: Mouton
de Gruyter.

Dressler, W.U. (?).Evidence of the first stages of morphology acquisition
for linguistic theory: Extragrammatic morphology and diminutives. Acta
Linguistica Hafniensia, 27, 91-108.

Dressler, W.U. & Karpf, A. (1995). The theoretical relevance of pre- and
protomorphology in language acquisition. Yearbook of Morphology, 99-122.

Gillis, S. (1997). The acquisition of diminutives in Dutch. In W.U.
Dressler (Ed.) Studies in pre- and protomorphology (pp.165-180). Vienna:
Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Gleason, J. Berko, Perlmann, R. Y., Ely, D., & Evans, D. (1994).  The
babytalk register: Parents' use of diminutives.  In J. L. Sokolov & C. E.
Snow (Eds.), Handbook of research in language development using CHILDES
(pp.50-76). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Kempe, V, & MacWhinney, B. (1999) Processing of morphological and semantic
cues in Russian and German. Language & Cognitive Processes, (2), 129-171.

Kempe, V., &  MacWhinney, B. (1996). The crosslinguistic assessment of
foreign language vocabulary learning. Applied Psycholinguistics, (2),
149-183.

Ravid, D. (1998). Diminutive -i in early child Hebrew: An initial
analysis. In S. Gillis (ed.) Studies in the acquisition of number and
diminutive marking. (pp. 149-174). Antwerp: Antwerp University Press.

Snow, C.E. (1994). Beginning from baby talk: Twenty years of research on
input in interaction. In. C. Gallaway & B.J. Richards (Eds.) Input and
interaction in language acquisition (pp.1-12). NY: Cambridge University
Press.

Snow, C. E., & Ferguson, C.A. (1997). Talking to Children: Language Input
and Acquisition. NY: Cambridge University Press.

Stephany, U. (1997). Diminutives in early child Greek, a preliminary
investigation. In W.U. Dressler (Ed.) Studies in pre- and protomorphology
(pp. 147-156). Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences.