Spanish Noun-Noun compounds with diminutive morphology: "perrito lobo" and "perro lobito"?

What is it about?

Is derivational morphology like inflectional morphology in that native Spanish speakers interpretation of N-N compounds allows for affixes to be attached to the head Noun but not to the modifier Noun or to both the head and the modifier? Do non-native speakers of Spanish have similar intuitions about derivational morphology in compounds?

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