Contrastive focus reduplication

Contrastive focus reduplication, also called contrastive reduplication, identical constituent compounding, lexical cloning, or the double construction, is a type of syntactic reduplication found in some languages. Doubling a word or phrase – such as "do you like-like him? " – can indicate that the prototypical meaning of the repeated word or phrase is intended.

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Contrastive focus reduplication

Contrastive focus reduplication, also called contrastive reduplication, identical constituent compounding, lexical cloning, or the double construction, is a type of syntactic reduplication found in some languages. Doubling a word or phrase – such as "do you like-like him? " – can indicate that the prototypical meaning of the repeated word or phrase is intended.

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