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Reduplication

Reduplication \Re*du`pli*ca"tion\ (-k?sh?n), n. [Cf. F. r['e]duplication, L. reduplicatio repetition.]

  1. The act of doubling, or the state of being doubled.

  2. (Pros.) A figure in which the first word of a verse is the same as the last word of the preceding verse.

  3. (Philol.) The doubling of a stem or syllable (more or less modified), with the effect of changing the time expressed, intensifying the meaning, or making the word more imitative; also, the syllable thus added; as, L. tetuli; poposci.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reduplication

1580s, from French réduplication (16c.), from Late Latin reduplicationem (nominative reduplicatio), noun of action from past participle stem of reduplicare (see reduplicate).

Wiktionary
reduplication

n. (context linguistics English) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicate.

WordNet
reduplication
  1. n. repetition of the final words of a sentence or line at the beginning of the next [syn: anadiplosis]

  2. the syllable added in a reduplicated word form

  3. a word formed by or containing a repeated syllable or speech sound (usually at the beginning of the word)

  4. the act of repeating over and again (or an instance thereof) [syn: reiteration]

Wikipedia
Reduplication

Reduplication in linguistics is a morphological process in which the root or stem of a word (or part of it) or even the whole word is repeated exactly or with a slight change.

Reduplication is used in inflections to convey a grammatical function, such as plurality, intensification, etc., and in lexical derivation to create new words. It is often used when a speaker adopts a tone more "expressive" or figurative than ordinary speech and is also often, but not exclusively, iconic in meaning. Reduplication is found in a wide range of languages and language groups, though its level of linguistic productivity varies.

Reduplication is the standard term for this phenomenon in the linguistics literature. Other terms that are occasionally used include cloning, doubling, duplication, repetition, and tautonym when it is used in biological taxonomies, such as "Bison bison".

The origin of this usage of tautonym is uncertain, but it has been suggested that it is of relatively recent derivation.

Usage examples of "reduplication".

Man as placed in the subject refers to the suppositum--and as placed in the reduplication refers to the nature, as was stated above.

The way in which that knotty-featured, savage old man would bring out the word irritation--with rattling and rolling reduplication of the resonant letter r--might have taught a lesson in articulation to Salvini.

The Mountain roared and bellowed in long reduplication, as if its whole foundations were rent, and this were the terrible voice of its dissolution.

A specialized portion of a chromosome that plays an important role in the reduplication of the chromosome during cellular division.

For some reason—probably having to do with a temporal precession effect induced by the reduplication of the Reinforcer circuitry—you seem to have taken over control of our joint conceptualizing capacities.