Reduplication, Repetition, Hypercharacterization, and Other Affix-Doubling in Child Language
Reduplication, Repetition, Hypercharacterization, and Other Affix-Doubling in Child Language
Reduplication, hypercharacterization of a prototypically less productive suffix by a productive suffix and diminutive suffix doubling, are special, repetitive cases of affix order. Repetition may be total or partial, moreover, both in form and meaning or only in meaning; it may be divided into several subtypes, such as traditional versus innovative onomatopoetic repetitions and repetitions of specific suffixes, especially of diminutive and plural formation. The course of early language acquisition may shed light on general questions of affix order and recursivity, particularly because early repetitive operations can be understood as trainings for morphological (de)composition and thus also for affix stacking. The data are mainly German, Russian, Polish, and French, which come from the Cross-Linguistic Project on Pre- and Protomorphology in Language Acquisition.
Keywords: reduplication, repetition, hypercharacterization, suffix doubling, child language, recursivity
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