Questions tagged [reduplication]
for questions pertaining to "a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change."
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Are rhyming words in the same phrase considered a form of reduplication?
Reduplication is rare in English AFAIK. However, we do have phrasal terms that consist of rhyming words: hanky-panky, hokey-pokey, hotsy-totsy, hoity-toity, itty-bitty, teenie-weenie, and itsy-bitsy ...
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Partial root reduplication and onomatopoeia
I am aware that partial root reduplication is very rare in the Germanic languages; this, I believe, is mostly reserved for class VII verbs like in Gothic, for instance. But, I was recently trying to ...
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Balinese independent numerals partial reduplication
The Balinese numbers in dependent and independent forms are given as linked. I just need to verify the assumptions that I made about the (possibly reduplicated) derived, independent form.
1) if the ...
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Does Reduplication oppose any Gricean Maxim?
Reduplication (a natural language feature) which changes meaning, pluralize, emphasize etc. is basically doubling of the word, partially doubling it or doubling it with phonetic constraints.
Grice's ...
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Why do so many languages have a phase like “so-so”?
Many languages seem to have some sort of repeating and/or singsong equivalent of the phrase so-so:
Arabic: نصف نصف (nisf nisf)
Chinese: 馬馬虎虎 (mǎma hūhu)
Greek: έτσι κι έτσι
Hebrew: ככה ...
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Relics of reduplication in modern Germanic languages
I'm wondering whether some german verbs, like, for example:
bibbern
plappern
lallen
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and as well some similar english verbs of which now only "to giggle" comes to my mind, are indeed relics of (...
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Are certain phonological processes more likely to be surface true?
This question occurred to me when studying Optimality Theory phonology. For reduplication in OT, the base of the stem (/reduplicated part) is taken to be the input for the reduplicated morph. However, ...
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Iterated reduplication?
Some friends and I were discussing whether you could reduplicate an already reduplicated string. I came up with this rather contrived example in English to show what I'm talking about:
Person A: So, ...
