// n. The morphological phenomenon in which some morphological material is repeated within a single form for lexical or grammatical purposes. Reduplication is a common phenomenon in the languages of the world, taking a variety of forms and serving a...

n. The morphological process in which some phonological material is repeated within a single form for lexical or grammatical purposes. Reduplication is a common phenomenon in the languages of the world, taking a variety of forms and serving a variety...

Doubling of initial syllables of a root or stem with or without a change in sound to express a morphosyntactic category, e.g. the formation of the perfect in a number of Indo-European verbs (Lat. tango—tetigī ‘I touch—I...

The DELUSION that things—people or objects, typically of significance to the person suffering the delusion—have been replaced by exact doubles. A specific form involving close family members is CAPGRAS SYNDROME. Typically, reduplication...

Reduplication, in linguistics, is a morphological process by which the root or stem of a word, or only part of it, is repeated. Reduplication is used both in inflections to convey a grammatical function, such as plurality, intensification, etc., and in...