In linguistics, reduplication is a morphological process in which the root or

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of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change. The classic observation on the semantics of reduplication is Edward Sapir's: "generally employed, with self-evident symbolism, to indicate such concepts as distribution, plurality, repetition, customary activity, increase of size, added intensity, continuance." Reduplication is used in inflections to convey a grammatical function, such as plurality, intensification, etc., and in lexical derivation to create new words. It is often used when a speaker adopts a tone more "expressive" or figurative than ordinary speech and is also often, but not exclusively, iconic in meaning. Reduplication is found in a wide range of languages and language groups, though its level of

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varies. Reduplication is found in a wide variety of languages, as exemplified below. Examples of it can be found at least as far back as

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, where it was used in forming some color terms, e.g. ''babbar'' "white", ''kukku'' "black". ''Reduplication'' is the standard term for this phenomenon in the linguistics literature. Other terms that are occasionally used include ''cloning'', ''doubling'', ''duplication'', ''repetition'', and '' tautonym'' when it is used in biological taxonomies, such as ''

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Typological description

Form

Reduplication is often described phonologically in one of two ways: either (1) as reduplicated ''segments'' (sequences of consonants/ vowels) or (2) as reduplicated '' prosodic units'' (

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s or

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). In addition to phonological description, reduplication often needs to be described morphologically as a reduplication of linguistic constituents (i.e. words, stems, roots). As a result, reduplication is interesting theoretically as it involves the interface between phonology and morphology. The ''base'' is the word (or part of the word) that is to be copied. The reduplicated element is called the ''reduplicant'', often abbreviated as ''RED'' or sometimes just ''R''. In reduplication, the reduplicant is most often repeated only once. However, in some languages, reduplication can occur more than once, resulting in a tripled form, and not a ''duple'' as in most reduplication. Triplication is the term for this phenomenon of copying two times. Pingelapese has both forms: Triplication occurs in other languages, e.g. Ewe, Shipibo, Twi, Mokilese,

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( Hokkien), Stau. Sometimes gemination (i.e. the doubling of consonants or vowels) is considered to be a form of reduplication. The term ''dupleme'' has been used (after ''morpheme'') to refer to different types of reduplication that have the same meaning.

Full and partial reduplication

''Full reduplication'' involves a reduplication of the entire word. For example,

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derives reciprocal forms from reflexive forms by total reduplication: Another example is from Musqueam Halkomelem "dispositional" aspect formation: ''Partial reduplication'' involves a reduplication of only part of the word. For example, Marshallese forms words meaning 'to wear X' by reduplicating the last ''consonant-vowel-consonant'' (''CVC'') sequence of a base, i.e. ''base''+''CVC'': Many languages often use both full and partial reduplication, as in the Motu example below:

Reduplicant position

Reduplication may be ''initial'' (i.e. prefixal), ''final'' (i.e.

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al), or ''internal'' (i.e.

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al), e.g. Initial reduplication in

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''(CV- prefix)'': Final reduplication in Dakota ''(-CCV suffix)'': Internal reduplication in Samoan ''(-CV- infix)'': Internal reduplication is much less common than the initial and final types.

Copying direction

A reduplicant can copy from either the left edge of a word (''left-to-right'' copying) or from the right edge (''right-to-left'' copying). There is a tendency for prefixing reduplicants to copy left-to-right and for suffixing reduplicants to copy right-to-left: Initial L → R copying in Oykangand

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): Final R → L copying in

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Reduplication and other morphological processes

All of the examples above consist of only reduplication. However, reduplication often occurs with other phonological and morphological process, such as

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, affixation of non-reduplicating material, etc. For instance, in Tz'utujil a new '-ish' adjective form is derived from other words by suffixing the reduplicated first consonant of the base followed by the segment . This can be written succinctly as '. Below are some examples: * 'red' → 'reddish' * 'yellow' → 'yellowish' * 'water' → 'watery' (Dayley 1985)

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has a similar suffix that is used in forming the plural of some nouns: ''-aC'' (where ''C'' is the last consonant of the base): * 'ditch' → 'ditches' * 'lump of meat' → 'lumps of meat' * 'boy' → 'boys' (Abraham 1964) This combination of reduplication and affixation is commonly referred to as ''fixed-segment reduplication''. In Tohono O'odham initial reduplication also involves gemination of the first consonant in the distributive plural and in repetitive verbs: * 'ox' → 'ox (distributive)' (''no''-n-nowiu) * 'rock' → 'rock (distributive)' (''ho''-h-hodai) * 'dig out of ground (unitative)' → 'dig out of ground (repetitive)' (''ko''-k-kow) * 'hit (unitative)' → 'hit (repetitive)' (Haugen forthcoming) Sometimes gemination can be analyzed as a type of reduplication.

Phonological processes, environment, and reduplicant-base relations

* overapplication * underapplication * backcopying – A putative phenomenon of over-application in the reduplicant of a process triggered by the reduplicant in the base * base-reduplicant "identity" ( OT terminology: BR-faithfulness) * tonal transfer/non-transfer

Function and meaning

In the Malayo-Polynesian family, reduplication is used to form plurals (among many other functions): * Malay ''rumah'' "house", ''rumah-rumah'' "houses". In pre-1972

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orthography, ''2'' was shorthand for the reduplication that forms plurals: ''orang'' "person", ''orang-orang'' or ''orang2'' "people". This orthography has resurfaced widely in text messaging and other forms of electronic communication. The Nama language uses reduplication to increase the force of a verb: ''go'', "look;", ''go-go'' "examine with attention". Chinese also uses reduplication: ''rén'' for "person", ''rénrén'' for "everybody". Japanese does it too: ''toki'' "time", ''tokidoki'' "sometimes, from time to time". Both languages can use a special written iteration mark to indicate reduplication, although in Chinese the iteration mark is no longer used in standard writing and is often found only in

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. Indo-European languages formerly used reduplication to form a number of verb forms, especially in the

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. In the older Indo-European languages, many such verbs survive: *''spondeo'', ''spopondi'' ( Latin, "I vow, I vowed") * ( Greek, "I leave, I left") * (Greek, "I see, I saw"; these Greek examples exhibit ablaut as well as reduplication) *''háitan'', ''haíháit'' (

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, "to name, I named") Those forms do not survive in Modern English but existed in its parent Germanic languages. Many verbs in the Indo-European languages exhibit reduplication in the

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stem, rather than the perfect stem, often with a different vowel from that used for the perfect: Latin ''gigno, genui'' ("I beget, I begat") and Greek τίθημι, ἔθηκα, τέθηκα (I place, I placed, I have placed). Other Indo-European verbs used reduplication as a derivational process: compare Latin ''sto'' ("I stand") and ''sisto'' ("I remain"). All of those Indo-European inherited reduplicating forms are subject to reduction by other phonological laws. Reduplication can be used to refer to the most prototypical instance of a word's meaning. In such a case, it is called

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. Finnish colloquial speech uses the process; nouns can be reduplicated to indicate genuinity, completeness, originality and being uncomplicated, as opposed to being fake, incomplete, complicated or fussy. It can be thought as compound word formation. For example, ''Söin jäätelöä ja karkkia, sekä tietysti ruokaruokaa.'' "I ate ice cream and candy, and of course food-food". Here, "food-food" is contrasted to "junk-food". One may say, "En ollut eilen koulussa, koska olin kipeä. Siis kipeäkipeä" ("I wasn't at school yesterday because I was sick. Sick-sick, that is"); that means that one was actually suffering from an illness instead of making up excuses, as usual. * ''ruoka'' "food", ''ruokaruoka'' "proper food", as opposed to snacks * ''peli'' "game", ''pelipeli'' "complete game", as opposed to a mod * ''puhelin'' "phone", ''puhelinpuhelin'' "phone for talking", as opposed to a pocket computer * ''kauas'' "far away", ''kauaskauas'' "unquestionably far away" * ''koti'' "home", ''kotikoti'' "home of your parents", as opposed to one's current place of residence Words can be reduplicated with their case morphemes, as in ''lomalla lomalla'', where the adessive morpheme (-''-lla'') appears twice. While reduplication is intelligible to most Finns, its usage is confined mostly to subgroups of young women and children (and possibly fathers of young children when they talk to their children). However, most young women and children do not use reduplication. Reduplication has a somewhat childish connotation and may be perceived as annoying. In

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, the verbs ''gah'' or ''goh'' "go", ''cho'' "come", ''la'' or ''lo'' "let" and ''aafa'' or ''aafo'' "begin" reduplicate when they are combined with other verbs. In some Salishan languages, reduplication can mark both diminution and plurality, with one process being applied to each end of the word, as in the following example from Shuswap. Note that the transcription is not comparable to the IPA, but the reduplication of both initial and final portions of the root is clear: ''ṣōk!Emē'’n'' 'knife' reduplicated as ''ṣuk!ṣuk!Emen'’me’n'' 'plural small knives' (Haeberlin 1918:159). Reduplication has been found to be a major part of Salish languages.

Reduplicative babbling in child language acquisition

At 25–50 weeks after birth, typically developing infants go through a stage of reduplicated or canonical babbling (Stark 198, Oller, 1980). Canonical babbling is characterized by repetition of identical or nearly identical consonant-vowel combinations, such as ''nanana'' or ''idididi''. It appears as a progression of language development as infants experiment with their vocal apparatus and home in on the sounds used in their native language. Canonical/reduplicated babbling also appears at a time when general rhythmic behavior, such as rhythmic hand movements and rhythmic kicking, appear. Canonical babbling is distinguished from earlier syllabic and vocal play, which has less structure.

Examples

Indo-European

Proto-Indo-European

The Proto-Indo-European language used partial reduplication of a consonant and ''e'' in many stative aspect verb forms. The perfect or preterite (past) tense of some Ancient Greek,

, Latin, Sanskrit, Old Irish, and Old Norse verbs preserve this reduplication: * Ancient Greek ''lúō'' 'I free' vs. ''léluka'' "I have freed" * Gothic ''hald'' "I hold" vs. ''haíhald'' (''hĕhald'') "I/he held" * Latin "I run" vs. "I ran" or "have run" * Old Irish "it breaks" vs. "it broke" * Old Norse ''rœ'' "I row" vs. ''rera'' (''røra'') "I rowed" * Sanskrit ''likhati'' 'he writes' vs. ''lilekha'' "he has written" or "he wrote" * A rare modern English reflex is ''do'' vs. ''did'' Proto-Indo-European also used reduplication for the imperfective aspect. Ancient Greek preserves this reduplication in the present tense of some verbs. Usually, but not always, this is reduplication of a consonant and ''i'', and contrasts with e-reduplication in the perfect: * ''dídōmi'' "I give" (present) * ''dédōka'' "I have given" (perfect) * * ''sísdō'' → ''hízō'' "I set" (present) * * ''sésdomai'' → ''hézomai'' "I sit down" (present; from sd-, zero-grade of root in *sed-os → ἕδος ''hédos'' "seat, abode") Reduplication in nouns was rare, the best example being Proto-Indo-European ' '

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''kãklas'' 'neck', Sanskrit ''cakrá'' 'wheel', Greek ''κύκλος'' (kýklos) 'circle'), which doubled *''kʷel-o-'' (cf. Old Prussian ''kelan'' 'wheel',

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''pêl'' 'ball'), itself likely a deverbative of *''kʷelh₁-'' 'to turn'.

English

English has several types of reduplication, ranging from informal expressive vocabulary (the first four forms below) to grammatically meaningful forms (the last two below). See also the alliteration section of the irreversible binomial article for cases like ''flip-flop'', ''dribs and drabs'', ''etc.'' * Rhyming reduplication: Boogie-woogie, easy-peasy, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, hoity-toity, hokey-pokey, hurdy-gurdy, itsy-bitsy, namby-pamby, raggle-taggle, ragtag, razzle-dazzle, super-duper, teenie-weenie, willy-nilly, wingding. * Exact reduplications: Ack ack, aye-aye, back-to-back, blah-blah, boo-boo, bye-bye, chin-chin, choo-choo, chow-chow, dik-dik, doo-doo, fifty-fifty, gogo, ha ha, half-and-half, housey-housey, juju, klop-klop, mama, muumuu, night-night, no-no, papa, pee-pee, pip-pip, pom-pom, poo-poo, pooh-pooh, putt putt, so-so, ta-ta, tut-tut, tutu, wah-wah, wee-wee, yo-yo. While in many forms of English, exact reduplications can also be used to emphasise the strength of a word ("He wants it ''now'' now"), in South African English, 'now-now' means 'relatively soon'. ** lexical reduplication: 'Each-each boy take one-one chair.'

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* Ablaut reduplications: In ablaut reduplications, the first vowel is almost always a

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(typically ɪ as in hit) and the reduplicated vowel is a

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(typically æ as in ''cat'' or ɒ as in ''top''). Examples include: bric-a-brac, chit-chat, clip-clop, ding-dong, flimflam, flip-flop, hip-hop, jibber-jabber, kitty-cat, knick-knack, mishmash, ping-pong, pitter-patter, riffraff, sing-song, slipslop, splish-splash, tick-tock, ticky-tacky, tip-top, whiff-whaff, wibble-wobble, wishy-washy, zig-zag. Three-part ablaut sequences are less numerous, but are attested, e.g. tic-tac-toe, bing-bang-boom, bish-bash-bosh and splish-splash-splosh.

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achieves comic effect by varying the ordering of vowels in such triples: ''There's a Nong Nang Ning/Where the trees go Ping!''. * Shm-reduplication can be used with most any word; e.g. ''baby-shmaby'', ''cancer-shmancer'' and ''fancy-shmancy''. This process is a feature of

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of New York City, then the New York dialect and then the whole country. Of the above types, only shm-reduplication is productive, meaning that examples of the first three are fixed forms and new forms are not easily accepted. * Comparative reduplication: In the sentence "John's apple looked redder and redder," the reduplication of the comparative indicates that the comparative is becoming more true over time, meaning roughly "John's apple looked progressively redder as time went on." In particular, this construction does mean that John's apple is redder than some other apple, which would be a possible interpretation in the absence of reduplication, e.g. in "John's apple looked redder." With reduplication, the comparison is of the object being compared to itself over time. Comparative reduplication always combines the reduplicated comparative with "and". This construction is common in speech and is used even in formal speech settings, but it is less common in formal written texts. Although English has simple constructs with similar meanings, such as "John's apple looked ever redder," these simpler constructs are rarely used in comparison with the reduplicative form. Comparative reduplication is fully productive and clearly changes the meaning of any comparative to a temporal one, despite the absence of any time-related words in the construction. For example, the temporal meaning of "The frug seemed wuggier and wuggier" is clear: despite not knowing what a frug is or what wugginess is, it is easy to grasp that the apparent wugginess of the frug was increasing over time, as indicated by the reduplication of the comparative "wuggier". *

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: Exact reduplication can be used with contrastive focus (generally where the first noun is stressed) to indicate a literal, as opposed to figurative, example of a noun, or perhaps a sort of Platonic ideal of the noun, as in "Is that carrot cheesecake or carrot CAKE-cake?". This is similar to the Finnish use mentioned above. Furthermore, it is used to contrast "real" or "pure" things against imitations or less pure forms. For example, at a coffee shop one may be asked, "Do you want soy milk?" and respond, "No, I want milk milk." This gives the idea that they want "real" milk. The

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is in some cases a type of reduplication, which may be regarded as non-standard or incorrect. More can be learned about English reduplication in , , and .

Dutch

While not common in Dutch, reduplication does exist. Most, but not all (e.g., ''pipi'', ''blauwblauw'' (laten), ''taaitaai'' (gingerbread)) reduplications in Dutch are loanwords (e.g., ''koeskoes'', ''bonbon'', (ik hoorde het) ''via via'') or imitative (e.g., ''tamtam'', ''tomtom''). Another example is a former safe sex campaign slogan in Flanders: ''Eerst bla-bla, dan boem-boem'' (''First talk, then have sex''; lit. ''First blah-blah, then boom-boom''). In Dutch the verb "gaan" (''to go'') can be used as an auxiliary verb, which can lead to a triplication: ''we gaan (eens) gaan gaan'' (we are going to get going). The use of ''gaan'' as an auxiliary verb with itself is considered incorrect, but is commonly used in Flanders. Numerous examples of reduplication in Dutch (and other languages) are discussed by Daniëls (2000).

Afrikaans

Afrikaans makes use of reduplication to emphasize the meaning of the word repeated and to denote a plural or event happening in more than one place. For example, ''krap'' means "to scratch one's self," while ''krap-krap-krap'' means "to scratch one's self vigorously", whereas "dit het plek-plek gereën" means "it rained here and there". Reduplication in Afrikaans has been described extensively in the literature – see for example , and . Further examples of this include: "koes" (to dodge) being reduplicated in the sentence "Piet hardloop koes-koes weg" (Piet is running away while constantly dodging / cringing); "sukkel" (to struggle) becoming "sukkel-sukkel" (making slow progress; struggling on); and "kierang" (to cheat) becoming "kierang-kierang" to indicate being cheated on repeatedly.

Romance languages

In Italian reduplication was used both to create new words or word associations (''tran-tran'', ''via via'', ''leccalecca'') and to intensify the meaning (''piano piano'' "very softly"). Common in

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, particularly but not exclusively for onomatopoeic action descriptions: "''Spagnoli venir...boum boum...andar; Inglis venir...boum boum bezef...andar; Francés venir...tru tru tru...chapar.''" ("The Spaniards came, cannonaded, and left. The English came, cannonaded heavily, and left. The French came, trumpeted on bugles, and captured it.") Common uses for reduplication in

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are the creation of hypocoristics for

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, whereby ''Louise'' becomes ''Loulou'', and Zinedine Zidane becomes ''Zizou''; and in many nursery words, like ''dada'' 'horsie' (vs. ''cheval'' 'horse'), ''tati'' 'auntie' (vs. ''tante'' 'aunt'), or ''tonton'' 'unkie' (vs. ''oncle'' 'uncle'). In Romanian and

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, reduplication is not uncommon and it has been used for both the creation of new words (including many from onomatopoeia) and expressions, for example, *Romanian: ''mormăi'', ''ţurţur'', ''dârdâi'', expressions ''talmeş-balmeş'', ''harcea-parcea'', ''terchea-berchea'', ''ţac-pac'', ''calea-valea'', ''hodoronc-tronc''. *Catalan: ''balandrim-balandram, baliga-balaga, banzim-banzam, barliqui-barloqui, barrija-barreja, bitllo-bitllo, bub-bub, bum-bum, but-but, catric-catrac, cloc-cloc, cloc-piu, corre-corrents, de nyigui-nyogui, farrigo-farrago, flist-flast, fru-fru, gara-gara, gloc-gloc, gori-gori, leri-leri, nap-buf, ning-nang, ning-ning, non-non, nyam-nyam, nyau-nyau, nyec-nyec, nyeu-nyeu, nyic-nyic, nyigo-nyigo, nyigui-nyogui, passa-passa, pengim-penjam, pif-paf, ping-pong, piu-piu, poti-poti, rau-rau, ringo-rango, rum-rum, taf-taf, tam-tam, tau-tau, tic-tac, tol·le-tol·le, tric-trac, trip-trap, tris-tras, viu-viu, xano-xano, xau-xau, xerric-xerrac, xim-xim, xino-xano, xip-xap, xiu-xiu, xup-xup, zig-zag, ziga-zaga, zim-zam, zing-zing, zub-zub, zum-zum''. In colloquial Mexican Spanish it is common to use reduplicated adverbs such as ''luego luego'' (then then) meaning "immediately", or ''casi casi'' (almost almost) which intensifies the meaning of 'almost'.

Slavic languages

The

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serves for various kinds of intensifying of the meaning and exists in several forms: a

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or repeated word (either exact or inflected reduplication), and forms similar to shm-reduplication.

Celtic languages

Reduplication is a common feature of Irish and includes the examples ''rírá'', ''ruaille buaille'' both meaning 'commotion' and ''fite fuaite'' meaning 'intertwined'.

Indo-Aryan

Typically all Indo-Aryan languages, like Hindi,

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, Gujarati and Bengali use partial or echoic reduplication in some form or the other. It is usually used to sound casual, or in a suggestive manner. It is often used to mean ''etcetera''. For example, in Hindi, chai-shai (''chai'' means tea, while this phrase means tea or any other supplementary drink or tea along with snacks). Quite common in casual conversations are a few more examples like shopping-wopping, khana-wana. South Asian Indo Aryan languages are also rich in other forms of reduplication: morphological (expressives), lexical (distributives), and phrasal (aspectual). *morphological: Reduplication also occurs in the 3rd '' gaṇa'' (verb class) of the Sanskrit language: ''bibheti'' "he fears", ''bibharti'' "he bears", ''juhoti'' "he offers", ''dadāti'', "he gives". Even though the general idea is to reduplicate the verb root as a prefix, several sandhi rules change the outcome. There are a number of constructions in Hindi and Urdu that are constructed by reduplication. Nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, pronouns, all have possibility of reduplications.

Armenian

In Armenian, reduplication follows the same classification as in Turkish (see below), namely emphatic reduplication, echo reduplication, and doubling. Many appear as lexical entries in Armenian lexicographical sources. # Emphatic reduplication, one of two interpolated consonants (փ, ս), as in ''կարմիր'' (red), which becomes ''կասկարմիր'' (very red). # Echo Reduplication, as in ''սեղան-մեղան'' (table schmable). # Doubling, as in ''քիչ-քիչ'' (little ylittle)

Turkish

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, there are three kinds of reduplication. # Emphatic Reduplication: A word can be reduplicated partially, such that an emphatic stem is created to be attached to the adjective. This is done by taking the first syllable of the adjective, dropping the syllable-final phoneme, and adding one of four interpolated consonants (p, s, m, r). For example, ''kırmızı'' (red) becomes ''kıpkırmızı'' (very red); ''mavi'' (blue) becomes ''masmavi'' (very blue); ''yeşil'' (green) becomes ''yemyeşil'' (very green), and ''temiz'' (clean) becomes ''tertemiz'' ("spotless"). However, the consonant added to the emphatic stem is unpredictable grammatically speaking, however phonological studies, such as Wedel (1999)Wedel (1999) do shed new light on the subject. # Echo Reduplication: A word can be reduplicated while replacing the initial consonants (not being ''m'', and possibly missing) with ''m''. The effect is that the meaning of the original word is broadened. For example, ''tabak'' means "plate(s)", and ''tabak mabak'' then means "plates, dishes and such". This can be applied not only to nouns but to all kinds of words, as in ''yeşil meşil'' meaning "green, greenish, whatever". Although not used in formal written Turkish, it is a completely standard and fully accepted construction. # Doubling: A word can be reduplicated totally, giving a related but different meaning or used for emphasizing. For example, ''zaman zaman'' (time time) meaning "occasionally"; ''uzun uzun'' (long long) meaning "very long or many things long". This type is used also in formal Turkish, especially in literature. There are a lot of reduplications in this category which do not, if used as one word, have a place in the Turkish language's vocabulary but is used solely in this way. These words are called mimetic in linguistics. An example is 'şırıl şırıl' (used for the sound of a waterfall). They try to give sounds to not only audible but also non-audible phenomena. For example, 'mışıl mışıl' is used for sleeping soundly.

Dravidian

Reduplication is also used in Dravidian languages like

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for the same purpose. * phrasal:

Bantu

Reduplication is a common phenomenon in

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and is usually used to form a

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verb or for emphasis. *

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''piga'' 'to strike'; ''pigapiga'' 'to strike repeatedly' *

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''okukuba'' (''oku-kuba'') 'to strike'; ''okukubaakuba'' (''oku-kuba-kuba'') 'to strike repeatedly, to batter' * Chewa ''tambalalá'' 'to stretch one's legs'; ''tambalalá-tambalalá'' to stretch one's legs repeatedly' Popular names that have reduplication include * Bafana Bafana *

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Semitic

Semitic languages frequently reduplicate consonants, though often not the vowels that appear next to the consonants in some verb form. This can take the shape of reduplicating the antepenultimate consonant (usually the second of three), the last of two consonants, or the last two consonants.

Hebrew

In Hebrew, reduplication is used in nouns, adjectives, adverbs and verbs for various reasons: * For emphasis: in ''le'at le'at'', where the adverb "slowly" is duplicated to mean "very slowly". In the slangism ''gever gever'', the noun "man" is duplicated to mean a "very manly man". * To mean "one by one": ** ''yom yom'' is based on "day", and means "every day, day by day". ** ''para para'' is based on "cow", and literally means "cow by cow", referring to "one thing at a time". This is possibly a folk etymology, and a derivation from Spanish "para" meaning "stop" is possible. * To create a diminutive: by reduplicating the last two consonants (bi-consonantal reduplication): ** ''kelev'' "dog" *** ''klavlav'' "puppy" ** ''khatul'' "cat" *** ''khataltul'' "kitten" ** ''lavan'' "white" *** ''levanban'' "whitish" ** ''katan'' "small" *** ''ktantan'' "tiny" * To create secondary derivative verbs: by reduplicating the root or part of it: ** ''dal'' () "poor" > ''dilel'' () "to dilute", and also ''dildel'' () "to impoverish, weaken". ** ''nad'' () "to move, nod"' > ''nadad'' () "to wander" but also ''nidned'' () "to swing" and - due to phono-semantic matching of the

lexical item נודיען nídyen / núdzhen "to bore, bother" - also "to bother, pest, nag, annoy". Zuckermann, Ghil'ad (2003), Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew. Palgrave Macmillan. /

/ref> ** ''tzakhak'' () "to laugh" > ''tzikhkek'' () "to chuckle". * For onomatopoeia: ** שקשק ''shikshék'' "to make noise, rustle". ** רשרש ''rishrésh'' "to make noise, rustle".

Amharic

In Amharic language, Amharic, verb roots can be reduplicated three different ways. These can result in verbs, nouns, or adjectives (which are often derived from verbs). From the root ''sbr'' 'break', antepenultimate reduplication produces ''täsäbabbärä'' 'it was shattered' and biconsonantal reduplication produces ''täsbäräbbärä'' 'it was shattered repeatedly' and ''səbərbari'' 'a shard, a shattered piece'. From the root ''kHb'' 'pile stones into a wall', since the second radical is not fully specified, what some call "hollow", the antepenultimate reduplication process reduplicates the ''k'' inserting the vowel ''a'' along with the consonant as a place holder for the hollow consonant, which is by some criteria antepenultimate, and produces ''akakabä'' 'pile stones repeatedly'.

Japanese

A small number of native Japanese nouns have

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forms produced by reduplication (possibly with rendaku), such as 人々 ''hitobito'' "people" (''h'' → ''b'' is rendaku) – these are written with the iteration mark "々" to indicate duplication. This formation is not productive and is limited to a small set of nouns. Similarly to Standard Chinese, the meaning is not that of a true plural, but collectives that refer to a large, given set of the same object; for example, the formal English equivalent of 人々 would be "people" (collective), rather than "persons" (plural individuals). Japanese also contains a large number of mimetic words formed by reduplication of a syllable. These words include not only onomatopoeia, but also words intended to invoke non-auditory senses or psychological states, such as きらきら ''kirakira'' (sparkling or shining). By one count, approximately 43% of Japanese mimetic words are formed by full reduplication, and many others are formed by partial reduplication, as in がささ〜 ''ga-sa-sa-'' (rustling) – compare English "''a''-ha-ha-ha".

Austronesian

Austronesian languages are known for their extensive use of reduplication in both nouns and verbs.

Malay (Indonesian and Malaysian)

In the Malay language, reduplication is a very productive process. It is used for expression of various grammatical functions (such as verbal aspect) and it is part in a number of complex morphological models. Simple reduplication of nouns and pronouns can express at least three meanings: #Diversity or non-exhaustive plurality: ##''Burung-burung itu juga diekspor ke luar negeri'' = "All those birds are also exported out of the country". #Conceptual similarity: ##''langit-langit'' = "ceiling; palate; etc." (''langit'' = "sky") ##''jari-jari'' = "spoke; bar; radius; etc." (''jari'' = "finger" etc.) #Pragmatic accentuation: ##''Saya bukan anak-anak lagi!'' "I am not a child anymore!" (''anak'' = "child") Reduplication of an adjective can express different things: *Adverbialisation: ''Jangan bicara keras-keras!'' = "Don't speak loudly!" (''keras'' = hard) *Plurality of the corresponding noun: ''Rumah di sini besar-besar'' = "The houses here are big" (''besar'' = "big"). Reduplication of a verb can express various things: *Simple reduplication: **Pragmatic accentuation: ''Kenapa orang tidak datang-datang?'' = "Why aren't people coming?" *Reduplication with ''me-'' prefixation, depending on the position of the prefix ''me-'': **Repetition or continuation of the action: ''Orang itu memukul-mukul anaknya'': "That man continuously beat his child"; **Reciprocity: ''Kedua orang itu pukul-memukul'' = "Those two men would beat each other". Notice that in the first case, the nasalisation of the initial consonant (whereby /p/ becomes /m/) is repeated, while in the second case, it only applies in the repeated word.

Māori

The

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( New Zealand) uses reduplication in a number of ways. Reduplication can convey a simple plural meaning, for instance ''wahine'' "woman", ''waahine'' "women", ''tangata'' "person", ''taangata'' "people". Biggs calls this "infixed reduplication". It occurs in a small subset of "people" words in most Polynesian languages. Reduplication can convey emphasis or repetition, for example ''mate'' "die", ''matemate'' "die in numbers"; and de-emphasis, for example ''wera'' "hot" and ''werawera'' "warm". Reduplication can also extend the meaning of a word; for instance ''paki'' "pat" becomes ''papaki'' "slap or clap once" and ''pakipaki'' "applaud"; ''kimo'' "blink" becomes ''kikimo'' "close eyes firmly"

Mortlockese

The Mortlockese language is a Micronesian language spoken primarily on the Mortlock Islands. In the Mortlockese language, reduplication is used to show a habitual or imperfective aspect. For example, /jææjæ/ means "to use something" while the word /jæjjææjæ/ means "to use something habitually or repeatedly". Reduplication is also used in the Mortlockese Language to show extremity or extreme measures. One example of this can be seen in /ŋiimw alɛɛtɛj/ which means "hate him, her, or it". To mean "really hate him, her, or it," the phrase changes to /ŋii~mw al~mw alɛɛtɛj/.

Pingelapese

Pingelapese is a Micronesian language spoken on the Pingelap atoll and on two of the eastern Caroline Islands, called the high island of Pohnpei. Pingelapese utilizes both duplication and triplication of a verb or part of a verb to express that something is happening for certain duration of time. No reduplication means that something happens. A reduplicated verb means that something IS happening, and a triplication means that something is STILL happening. For example, ''saeng'' means 'to cry' in Pingelapese. When reduplicated and triplicated, the duration of this verb is changed: * ''saeng'' – cries * ''saeng-saeng'' – is crying * ''saeng-saeng-saeng'' – is still crying Few languages employ triplication in their language. In Micronesia, Pingelapese is one of only two languages that uses triplication, the other being Mokilese. Reduplication and triplication are not to be confused with tense however. In order to make a phrase past, present, or future tense, a temporal phrase must be used.

Rapa

Rapa is the French Polynesian language of the island of Rapa Iti. In terms of reduplication, the indigenous language known as Old Rapa uses reduplication consistent to other Polynesian languages. Reduplication of Old Rapa occurs in four ways: full, rightward, leftward, and medial. Full and rightward are generally more frequently used as opposed to the leftward and medial. Leftward and medial only occur as CV reduplication and partial leftward and medial usually denote emphasis. Example of Reduplication Forms: For the Rapa Language the implementation of reduplication has specific implications. The most evident of these are known as iterative, intensification, specification, diminutive, metaphorical, nominalizing, and adjectival. Iterative: * naku 'come, go' → nakunaku 'pass by frequently' * ipuni 'hide' → ipunipuni 'hide and seek' Intensification: * mare 'cough' → maremare 'cough forcefully' * roa 'much' → roroa 'very much' * maki 'sick'makimaki 'really sick' Specification: * kini 'to pinch' → kinikini 'pinch skin' Diminutive: * paki 'slap, strike'pakipaki 'clap' * kati 'bite' → katikati 'nibble' Metaphorical (typically comparing an animal action with a human action): * kapa 'mime with hands' → kapakapa 'flap wings (a bird)' * mākuru 'detach oneself' → mākurukuru 'shed or molt' * taŋi 'Yell' → taŋitaŋi 'chirp (a bird)' Nominalizing: * para 'Finished'parapara 'leftovers' * Panga'a 'divide' → panaga'anga'a 'a break, a divide' Adjectival: * repo 'dirt, earth' → reporepo 'dirty' * pake 'sun' → pakepake 'shining, bright'

Tagalog

Philippine languages are characterized as having the most productive use of reduplication, especially in

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(the basis of the Filipino language). Reduplication in Tagalog is complex. It can be roughly divided into six types: #Monosyllabic; e.g. ''olol'' ("mad") #Reduplication of the final syllable; e.g. ''himaymay'' ("separate meat from bones"), from ''himay'' (same meaning) #Reduplication of the final syllable of a disyllabic word, where the added syllable is created from the first consonant of the first syllable and the last consonant of the second syllable; e.g. ''kaliskis'' (" ishscale"), from ''kalis'' ("to scrape") #Reduplication of the initial syllable of the root; e.g. ''susulat'' ("will write"), from ''sulat'' ("to write") #Full reduplication; e.g. ''araw-araw'' ("every day"), from ''araw'' ("day" or "sun") #Combined partial and full reduplication; e.g. ''babalibaligtad'' ("turning around continually", "tumbling"), from ''baligtad'' ("reverse") They can further be divided into "non-significant" (where its significance is not apparent) and "significant" reduplication. 1, 2, and 3 are always non-significant; while 5 and 6 are always significant. 4 can be non-significant when used for nouns (e.g. ''lalaki'', "man"). Full or partial reduplication among nouns and pronouns can indicate emphasis, intensity, plurality, or causation; as well as a diminutive, superlative, iterative, restrictive, or distributive force. Adjectives and adverbs employ morphological reduplication for many different reasons such as number agreement when the adjective modifies a plural noun, intensification of the adjective or adverb, and sometimes because the prefix forces the adjective to have a reduplicated stem". Number agreement for adjectives is entirely optional in Tagalog (e.g., a plural noun does not have to have a plural article marking it): *"Ang magandang puno" "the beautiful tree". *"Ang ma''ga''gandang puno" "the beautiful tree''s''". The entire adjective is repeated for intensification of adjectives or adverbs: *''Maganda''ng maganda ang kabayo "the horse is ''very'' pretty" In verbs, reduplication of the root, prefix or infix is employed to convey different

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s. In "Mag- verbs" reduplication of the root after the prefix "mag-" or "nag-" changes the verb from the infinitive form, or perfective aspect, respectively, to the contemplated or imperfective aspect. Thus: *magluto inf/actor trigger-cook "to cook" or "cook!" ( Imperative) *nagluto actor trigger-cook "cooked" *nagluluto actor trigger-reduplication-cook "cook" (as in "I cook all the time) or "is/was cooking" *magluluto inf/actor trigger-rdplc-cook (contemplated) "will cook" For Ergative verbs (frequently referred to as "object focus" verbs) reduplication of part the infix and the stem occur: *lutuin cook-inf/object trigger-cook "to cook" *niluto object trigger infix-cook (perf-cook) "cooked" *niluluto object trigger infix-reduplication-cook "cook"/"is/was cooking" *lulutuin rdp-cook-object trigger "will cook". The complete superlative prefix pagka- demands reduplication of the first syllable of the adjective's stem: *"Ang pagka''ga''gandang puno" "The ''most'' beautiful tree (''and there are none more beautiful anywhere'')"

Wuvulu-Aua

Reduplication is not a productive noun derivation process in Wuvulu-Aua as it is in other Austronesian languages. Some nouns exhibit reduplication, though they are considered to be fossilized. Verb roots can undergo whole or partial reduplication to mark aspect. Actions that are continuous are indicated by a reduplicated initial syllable. A whole reduplication can also be used to indicate imperfective aspect. * "''roni''" "to hurry" * "''roroni''" "hurrying" * "''rawani''" "good" * "''rarawani''" "good" (continuous) * "''ware''" "talk" * "''wareware''" "talked" (durative) The onomatopoeia in Wuvulu language also uses reduplication to describe the sound. These onomatopoeic words can be used as alienable nouns. * "baʔa" or "baʔabaʔa" is a word for the sound of knocking.

Austroasiatic

Vietnamese

Sino-Tibetan

Burmese

As in many Tibeto-Burman languages, in

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, reduplication is used in verbs and adjectives to form adverbs. Many Burmese words, especially adjectives such as ('beautiful' ), which consist of two syllables (when reduplicated, each syllable is reduplicated separately), when reduplicated ( → 'beautifully' ) become adverbs. This is also true of many Burmese verbs, which become adverbs when reduplicated. Some nouns are also reduplicated to indicate plurality. For instance, , means "country," but when reduplicated to , it means "many countries" (as in , "international"). Another example is , which means "kinds," but the reduplicated form means "multiple kinds." A few measure words can also be reduplicated to indicate "one or the other": * (measure word for people) → (someone) * (measure word for things) → (something)

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Echo-Word Reduplication Lexicon

List of English reduplications in Wiktionary

graz database on reduplication (gdr)
Institute of Linguistics, University of Graz
La réduplication à m dans l’arabe parlé à Mardin
Grammar Linguistic morphology Phonology