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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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This has been renamed reduplicative paramnesia or simply reduplication.
Here the words are formed by a reduplication of a base and an alternation of the internal vowel.
This basic aspect, however, could be reversed by morphological devices such as ablaut, suffixation, and reduplication.
Of these the fifth and sixth superadd to the reduplication a change of the vowel.
Complete reduplication gives a verb frequentative force with, sometimes, diminished intensity.
There is a large collection of reasons for this reduplication of monotonous sounds.

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