reduplication
nounUK /ɹɪ.djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ · US /ɹəˌd(j)u.pləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From re- + duplication.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
- Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.1958, Anthony Burgess, The Enemy in the Blanket (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 256:
- Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.]2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10:
- Derived terms
- contrastive focus reduplication, endoreduplication, reduplicational