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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 really is [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication reduplication]. |
In Chinese, [[verb]]s and [[adjective]]s are often reduplicated. | In Chinese, [[verb]]s and [[adjective]]s are often reduplicated. | ||
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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 really is reduplication.
In Chinese, verbs and adjectives are often reduplicated.
