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The OCP, Prosodic Morphology and Sonoran Spanish diminutives: a reply to Crowhurst*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 October 2008

James Harris
James Harris
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Megan Crowhurst's ‘Diminutives and augmentatives in Mexican Spanish: a prosodic analysis’ (1992, henceforth CRO) takes a fresh look at the thorny problem of explicating the distribution of the allomorphs -itV and -(e)citV of the Spanish diminutive suffix. CRO has conspicuous virtues. Among them is the limitation of data to a single dialect, namely Sonoran, of northern Mexico. This narrow focus is insurance against inadvertently mixing incompatible data, a special risk posed by the considerable dialect variability of productive diminutivisation. At the same time, CRO broadens its data base by taking into account the partial parallelism between diminutive -itV/-(e)citV and augmentative -otV/-(e)sotV.

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Phonology , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , May 1994 , pp. 179 - 190
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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