African languages are endowed with a plethora of linguistic processes which speakers employ to convey meaning in utterances. Among these processes is one in which some strings of a word may be ...

This study investigates the Turkish partial reduplication phenomenon, in which the reduplicant is derived by prefixing C1_V_C2 syllable, where C1_V are identical to the word-initial CV of the base and ...

In the delightful realm of linguistic quirks, rhyming reduplication stands out as a captivating phenomenon that tickles both the ear and the intellect. The English language, brimming with whimsical ...

Partial reduplication requires the ability to copy (a) a single syllable of a multisyllabic word or (b) a portion of a syllable but not the whole syllable. Regarding possibility (a), in SLs, the ...

The goal of this project is to analyze tonal transfer in Vietnamese reduplicates at a surface-level. It explores pairs with partial reduplication like "nho nhỏ" and full reduplication like "từ từ" in ...