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reduplication
PHONOLOGY/MORPHOLOGY: a word formation process by which some part of a base (= a segment, syllable, morpheme) is repeated, either to the left, or to the right, or, occasionally, in the middle. EXAMPLE: Tagalog, a language spoken at the Philippines has many reduplication rules, resulting in forms like (i) and (ii):
(i) sulat 'writing' su-sulat 'will write' (ii) mag-sulat-sulat 'to write intermittently'
LIT. | Broselow, J. & J. McCarthy (1983) Clements,G.N. (1985) Marantz, A. (1982) Spencer, A. (1991) |