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What is a reduplication?

What is a reduplication? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.
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A second case of grammatical negative transfer is the use of reduplication when using nouns, which is a common practice in Chinese, but indicates redundancy in English.
Here the words are formed by a reduplication of a base and an alternation of the internal vowel.
And this reduplication of the grievous mistake he had made on the field of Ligny was absolutely fatal.
This basic aspect, however, could be reversed by morphological devices such as ablaut, suffixation, and reduplication.
The former is from tici and cun or con, whence by reduplication cun-un-un-an, it thunders.
The hook should then be withdrawn, and each knot should be drawn more firmly down prior to its reduplication.

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