A crosslinguistic study of reduplication

• Main Author: Nadarajan, Shanthi
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) 2006
• Subjects: AC Collections. Series. Collected works
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1117/1/A%2Bcrosslinguistic%2Bstudy%2Bof%2Breduplication%252824%2529.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/1117/; http://slat.arizona.edu/

Reduplication is an important phenomenon in language studies. Its linguistic forms has long been studied in terms of various formalist theories but there is a general consensus that the role of reduplication in English has been widely ignored. Recent corpus based studies have indicated that the usa...