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reduplication
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reduplication /re·du·pli·ca·tion/ (re″doo-plĭ-ka´shun)
1. a doubling back.
2. the recurrence of paroxysms of a double type.
3. duplication (3).

re·du·pli·ca·tion (r-dpl-kshn)
n.
1. A redoubling.
2. A duplication or doubling, as of the sounds of the heart in certain diseased states.
3. The abnormal presence of two parts instead of a single part.
4. A fold or duplicature.

re·dupli·cate v.

reduplication [re-doo″plĭ-ka´shun]
1. a doubling back.
2. the recurrence of paroxysms of a double type.
3. a developmental anomaly resulting in doubling of an organ or part, with a connection between them at some point and the excess part usually a mirror image of the other.

reduplication
1. a doubling back.
2. the recurrence of paroxysms of a double type.
3. a developmental anomaly resulting in the doubling of an organ or part, with a connection between them at some point and the excess part usually a mirror image of the other.

heart sound reduplication
see gallop rhythm.


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Taken together, they improve on Base Reduplicant Correspondence Theory (BRCT; McCarthy and Prince 1995) as an overall approach to reduplication, although there are many formal similarities between BRCT and phonological duplication.
1998) suggest that reduplicants tend to appear on the opposite side of the root from the direction of affixation: a reduplicant tends to be prefixed if the relevant domain (stem, word) is predominantly suffixing; contrarily, a reduplicant tends to be suffixed if the relevant domain is predominantly prefixing.
Complementary antonym constructions, such as young old, can be said to fulfill the requirement of semantic copying, in that the reduplicant copies all semantic features of the base minus one.
 
 
 
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