reduplication|reduplications in English

noun

[rɪ'duːplɪ'keɪʃn /-'dju-]

act of copying, act of doubling; repetition, act of doing agai

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1. 30 It finds that there exist reduplication and non-reduplication in adjective, verb, noun, classifier, onomatopoetic, and no reduplication in numeral and adverb.

2. Ruthfulness Artfulnesses artfulness readablenesses irritableness irritablenesses reduplicates readableness redeployments reduplications

3. Biplicity ( uncountable ) The state of being twice folded; reduplication

4. What does Biplicity mean? The state of being twice folded; reduplication

5. Ablaut reduplication refers specifically when the interior vowels of a word are altered in repetition, giving us phrases like tick-tock, riffraff, and the Mary Poppins-approved spit-spot.

6. Argle Bargle makes use of reduplication, which in some languages is a grammatical process that can indicate things like plurality or verbal aspect

7. Argle bargle makes use of reduplication, which in some languages is a grammatical process that can indicate things like plurality or verbal aspect

8. Most people do not realize this, but when they say ‘tick tock’, they do so because they unwittingly follow an old grammar rule without actually realizing it – the rule of Ablaut reduplication

9. Coalescence When two phonemes are substituted with a consonant that has similar features “spoon” à “foon” -- Reduplication When a sound or incomplete syllable is repeated “bottle” à “baba” ~3 years

10. Two morphological characteristics of the Malayo-Polynesian languages are a system of affixation and the reduplication (repetition of all or part of a word, such as wiki-wiki) to form new words.

11. Brains of diabetic chinese hamsters have been compared with those of normal controls of the same age and sex. By electron microscopy vascular lesions were prominent, especially thickening and reduplication of basement membranes.

12. Boogie (v.) 1974 as "dance to Boogie music," a late 1960s style of rock music based on blues chords; earlier it was the name of a style of blues (1941, also as a verb), short for Boogie-woogie (1928), a rhyming reduplication of the noun Boogie (1917), which meant "rent party" in American English slang

13. Bauble (n.) early 14c., "showy trinket or ornament," from Old French baubel "child's toy, trinket," probably a reduplication of bel, from Latin bellus "pretty" (see belle).Or else related to babe, baby.Meaning "a trifle, thing of little or no value" is from 1630s.

14. Beaver (n.1) "large amphibious quadruped rodent of the genus Castor," Old English beofor, befer (earlier bebr), from Proto-Germanic *bebruz (source also of Old Saxon bibar, Old Norse bjorr, Middle Dutch and Dutch bever, Low German bever, Old High German bibar, German Biber), from PIE *bhebhrus, reduplication of root *bher-(2) "bright; brown" (source also of Lithuanian bebrus, Czech bobr, Welsh

15. "to dismiss lightly and Contemptuously," literally "to turn aside with an exclamation of 'pooh,'" 1827, a slang reduplication of dismissive expression pooh.Among the many 19th century theories of the origin of language was the Pooh-pooh theory (1860), which held that language grew from natural expressions of surprise, joy, pain, or grief.

16. The two properties that characterize Ablaut reduplication in English (chit-chat, dilly-dally) are: (1) identical vowel quantity in the stressed syllabic peaks, (2) maximally distinct vowel qualities in the two halves, with [i] appearing most commonly to the left and a low vowel to the right.In addition, Ablaut reduplicatives are described as having a trochaic contour, yet there is a great deal