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/ɹɪ.djuː.plɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/ · noun
(linguistics) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating..
Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.
Grammatically, Malay uses reduplication for plurals (burung = bird, burung-burung = birds) and thus repeated words are commonly heard in Malay speech[.]
Use reduplication when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Reduplication means (linguistics) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Her Malay was the Malay of the Staate of Lanchap [...] and she spoke it fierily, with crisp glottal checks, with much bubbling reduplication.
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