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reduplicatives

reduplicatives is the plural of reduplicative.

Meaning of reduplicative

Noun

reduplicative (plural reduplicatives)

  1. A word obtained by the process of reduplication.
    • Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech; in contrast, in English reduplicatives are much less frequent and often involve phoneme modulation (ding-dong; wham-bam).2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 10

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Questions about reduplicatives

What is reduplicatives the plural of?
Reduplicatives is the plural of reduplicative.

Words near reduplicatives in the dictionary

  1. reduplication
  2. reduplicational
  3. reduplications
  4. reduplicative
  5. reduplicatively
  6. reduplicatives
  7. reduplicativity
  8. reduplicator
  9. reduplicators
  10. reduplicatory
  11. reduplicature

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