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It is one of the great ironies of linguistics that the term for repeating a word is overly repetitive itself. You'd think that the word "duplication" would work just fine, but the linguistic term is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication reduplication]. | It is one of the great ironies of linguistics that the term for repeating a word is overly repetitive itself. You'd think that the word "duplication" would work just fine, but the linguistic term is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication reduplication]. | ||
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It is one of the great ironies of linguistics that the term for repeating a word is overly repetitive itself. You'd think that the word "duplication" would work just fine, but the linguistic term is reduplication.
In Chinese, verbs and adjectives are often reduplicated.
