MOR107 - Reduplication
Channel: The Virtual Linguistics Campus
Date: 2012-03-03

Reduplication comes from Latin reduplicatio meaning doubling, folding. It is the act or result of doubling a sound, word, or word element, usually for grammatical or lexical purposes. It is one of the most natural processes of forming compound words.This unit discusses the main principles of reduplication in PDE as well as in other languages.