Reduplication

//ɹəˌd(j)u.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating. countable, uncountable

    "Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication."

  2. 2
    the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) wordnet
  3. 3
    The folding or doubling of a part or organ. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word) wordnet
  5. 5
    the syllable added in a reduplicated word form wordnet
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  1. 6
    repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next wordnet

Synonyms

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copyanadiplosisanadiplosiscarboncarbon copycopy

Example

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"Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication."

Etymology

From re- + duplication.

Related phrases

contrastive focus reduplication

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