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by M De Belder - Related articles

http://www.linguist.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~nfaust/Deuxminutives-DBF&L.pdf

diminutive into English using a noun, specifically "scrap" ..... Russian diminutives, the English text relies more heavily ...

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Universal tendencies in the semantics of the diminutive. Language, 72 (3),. 533-577. Schneider, K. P. (2004). Diminutives in English. ...

http://www.linguistics.stonybrook.edu/fasl/abstracts/A_Steriopolo.pdf

demonstrate these values by giving sentences with ]g-diminutives together with their English equivalents. It will be seen that in no single instance a ...

http://www.springerlink.com/index/X00G682K2G408894.pdf

Most languages form diminutives by suffixation, with an iconic tendency towards palatal phonemes and/or high tonality, as in English -ie, -y, ...

http://www.springerlink.com/index/H525565631012427.pdf

by V KEMPE - 2005 - Cited by 10

http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/papers/2005/PBR.pdf

of diminutives is extremely limited.1 English diminutives can be derived from proper names as in Billy, Patty and Johnny, names of relatives as in mommy, ...

http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/papers/2007/KempeBrooksGillis_2007ChapterDraft.pdf

We also find this misuse in various diminutive forms. Australian English is particularly prolific in creating diminutives on the pattern: "first ...

http://www.informaworld.com/index/911510284.pdf

It is of course a commonplace that the English language is poor in diminutives, and that those which are used are almost exclusively limited to the language ...

http://www.informaworld.com/index/795183629.pdf

diminutives in such different languages as Russian, English, German and Hungarian. ▪ To depict the factors, that trouble the Hungarian students in building ...

http://nevelestudomany.phd.elte.hu/vedesek/2008/angol_tezis_rak_sandor.pdf

by N ŠEVA - 2007 - Cited by 6

https://repository.abertay.ac.uk/jspui/bitstream/10373/276/1/SevaKempeBrooksMironovaPershukovaFedorovaJCL2007.pdf

by I SAVICKIENĖ - 2009 - Cited by 3

https://repository.abertay.ac.uk/jspui/bitstream/10373/264/1/KempechildLang2009.pdf

by V Kempe - Cited by 20

http://faculty.piercecollege.edu/levined/word/Articles/Child-directed speech.pdf

In English, diminutives (e.g., froggy, sockie, and Stevie) have a strong–weak metric stress pattern, which may serve to strengthen the bias ...

http://mc.psychonomic-journals.org/content/35/4/762.full.pdf

Diminutives are words that imply something small. ... Choose the correct diminutive for each animal. ... Add the correct suffix to make the diminutive. ...

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/english/pdfs/12diminutives.pdf

hina—clause, fondness for diminutives, and .... genius of the English language make it pos- ... mon in English poetry (where however a ...

http://jaar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/VI/IV/207.pdf

Among English diminutives in medical use may be mentioned footling "foot of an infant presenting during labor," lancet, and (valve) leaflet. ...

http://pdfs.journals.lww.com/jaamtonline/1988/00710/More_about_Less.10.pdf

Virtually all languages have ways of forming diminutives (words whose meanings include the idea of smallness) from other words. In. English we find booklet ...

http://pdfs.journals.lww.com/jaamtonline/1987/00640/When_More_Means_Less.10.pdf

The English Tone of Voice: Studies in intonation, prosody, and paralanguage. London, St. Martin's. Hoenigswald, H. M. 1971. Diminutives and Tatpurusas: The ...

http://www.unc.edu/~bbiljana/PROPOSAL.pdf

by N Grandi - Cited by 2

http://www.grandionline.net/nicola/pubblicazioni/grandi-scalise-Dressler99.pdf

by JA Matisoff - Cited by 13

http://sealang.net/sala/archives/pdf4/matisoff1992mother.pdf

by M Nishikawa - Related articles

http://reposit.lib.kumamoto-u.ac.jp/bitstream/2298/10609/1/KJ0057_059-069.pdf

diminutives, languages differ in the level of productivity of this derivation, from systems like English, where the attachment of the diminutive –y suffix ...

https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/1893/114/1/SevaNada_Exploring the facilitating effect of diminutives on the acquisition of Serbian noun morphology.pdf

by V KEMPE - 2003 - Cited by 20

https://dspace.stir.ac.uk/dspace/bitstream/1893/268/1/diminutivization-supports-gender-acquisition.pdf

by V Schmiedtová - Related articles

http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/publications/CL2007/paper/62_Paper.pdf

number of constructions that he groups under a cover term “diminutive”. ... only with the pronunciation on the right in my English-Cantonese dictionary. ...

http://www.linguistics.ucla.edu/people/schuh/lx105/105_00discussion/05_suprasegmental_internal_change_key.pdf

In another microlinguistic study Jana Chamonikolasová and Jiŕí. Rambousek compare diminutive expressions in English–Czech and Czech–. English translations. ...

http://www.akademiai.com/index/4581131540054950.pdf

Spanish emotive affixes, such as diminutives, take on the gender feature of the ... Subjects are adult learners of L2 Spanish (L1 English), at three ...

http://www.lsrl.uiuc.edu/abstracts/valenzuela-bruhn-ramirez-faure.pdf

English diminutives have received little attention from language researchers. This is ...... Diminutives in English. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag. ...

http://fla.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/24/2/241.pdf

We call the new nouns that are created this way 'diminutives'. As a language, English does not usually use diminutives. Normally, English speakers simply ...

http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/95152/excerpt/9780521695152_excerpt.pdf

We call the new nouns that are created this way 'diminutives'. Apart from the terms use to describe young animals, English does not usually use diminutives. ...

http://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/95169/excerpt/9780521695169_excerpt.pdf

by E Dabrowska - 2006 - Cited by 3

http://www.cogling.group.shef.ac.uk/publications/Dabrowska 2006.pdf

by EWA HAMAN - Cited by 9

http://plc.psychologia.pl/plc/contents/fulltext/07-1_3.pdf

by DINF CHILD-DIRECTED - Related articles

http://plc.psychologia.pl/plc/contents/fulltext/05-2_7.pdf

by IA Derzhanski - 2003 - Cited by 1

http://mmm.lingue.unibo.it/mmm-proc/MMM4/073-089-Derzhanski-MMM4.pdf

In this paper, we describe a diminutive category in Walman, a language in the ...... mol 'what', where the difference is similar to that in English, ...

http://linguistics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/dryer/dryer/BrownDryerWalmanDimin.pdf

diminutives can be identified by either a tone or a glottal stop. ...... Department of Applied English. Southern Taiwan University of Technology ...

http://www.ling.sinica.edu.tw/eip/FILES/journal/2009.7.27.57300966.4050635.pdf

German and Dutch diminutives turn mass nouns into count nouns ..... Towards a common semantics for English count and mass nouns. Linguistics and ...

http://137.82.103.200/linguistics/sites/default/files/WILTSCHKOsquib.pdf

by D Jamet - Related articles

http://screcherche.univ-lyon3.fr/lexis/IMG/pdf/Lexis_special_1_Jamet.pdf

The sound pattern of English. New York: Harper & Row. CROWHURST, MEGAN. 1992. Diminutives and augmentatives in Mexican Spanish: A prosodic analysis. Phonol- ...

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/v082/82.4rice01.pdf

is quite common in American English, although I cannot speak for all dialects spoken worldwide. One of the diminutive suffixes discussed is the ...

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/language/v078/78.4kaye02.pdf

by I Plag - Cited by 45

http://www.uni-siegen.de/~engspra/Papers/Morphology/ell.pdf

Diminutives in English. Tübingen: Niemeyer. Spencer, A. (1991). Morphological theory: An introduction to word structure in gen- erative grammar. ...

http://www.uni-siegen.de/~engspra/Papers/Morphology/productivity-ell2.pdf

by VM Orengo - Cited by 2

http://www.clef-campaign.org/2006/working_notes/workingnotes2006/orengoCLEF2006.pdf

by T Dorscheidt - Related articles

http://urd.let.rug.nl/nerbonne/papers/Dorscheidt-Valchev-van-Zoelen-Nerbonne-MGL-2007.pdf

Diminutives are used to describe a smaller or younger version of something. For example, the diminutive of dog would be puppy. ...

http://abcteach.com/free/g/grammar_diminutives.pdf

by D Eddington - Cited by 12

http://linguistics.byu.edu/faculty/eddingtond/diminutive.pdf

Diminutives: English - Greg(g), Grigg.5. Reaney cites the Gregg/Grigg name as a pet name and most probably introduced to. England as a post-conquest name ...

http://www.richmondsounddesign.com/docs/grigg-origins.pdf

The use of diminutives in expressing politeness: Modern Greek versus English. Journal of Pragmatics, 17: 155–173. Sinclair, John. ...

http://epub.oeaw.ac.at/0xc1aa500d_0x00029168.pdf

by S Unsworth - Cited by 6

http://www.let.uu.nl/~Sharon.Unsworth/personal/EUROSLA_07_handout.pdf