A crosslinguistic study of reduplication
Reduplication is an important phenomenon in language studies. Its linguistic forms has long been studied in terms of various formalist theories but there is a general consensus that the role of reduplication in English has been widely ignored. Recent corpus based studies have indicated that the usa...
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| description | Reduplication is an important phenomenon in language studies. Its linguistic forms has long been studied in terms of various formalist theories but there is a general consensus that the role of reduplication in English has been widely ignored. Recent corpus based studies have indicated that the usage of reduplication among English speakers is more widespread than assumed to be and needs in depth study. This article takes another look at the
traditional forms of reduplication and current views on how they occur. It also discusses reduplication and repetition found in Malay and Tamil and compares them with English forms, in order to establish a pattern. |
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| spelling | unimas-11172020-08-25T07:57:14Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1117/ A crosslinguistic study of reduplication Nadarajan, Shanthi AC Collections. Series. Collected works Reduplication is an important phenomenon in language studies. Its linguistic forms has long been studied in terms of various formalist theories but there is a general consensus that the role of reduplication in English has been widely ignored. Recent corpus based studies have indicated that the usage of reduplication among English speakers is more widespread than assumed to be and needs in depth study. This article takes another look at the traditional forms of reduplication and current views on how they occur. It also discusses reduplication and repetition found in Malay and Tamil and compares them with English forms, in order to establish a pattern. Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) 2006 Working Paper NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1117/1/A%2Bcrosslinguistic%2Bstudy%2Bof%2Breduplication%252824%2529.pdf Nadarajan, Shanthi (2006) A crosslinguistic study of reduplication. [Working Paper] (Unpublished) http://slat.arizona.edu/ |
| spellingShingle | AC Collections. Series. Collected works Nadarajan, Shanthi A crosslinguistic study of reduplication |
| title | A crosslinguistic study of reduplication |
| title_full | A crosslinguistic study of reduplication |
| title_fullStr | A crosslinguistic study of reduplication |
| title_full_unstemmed | A crosslinguistic study of reduplication |
| title_short | A crosslinguistic study of reduplication |
| title_sort | crosslinguistic study of reduplication |
| topic | AC Collections. Series. Collected works |
| url | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1117/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1117/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1117/1/A%2Bcrosslinguistic%2Bstudy%2Bof%2Breduplication%252824%2529.pdf |