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Phonetic reduplication in Tamil in the context of expressivity

SYSNO ASEP	0318490
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Phonetic reduplication in Tamil in the context of expressivity
Title	Fonetická reduplikace v tamilštině v kontextu expresivity
Author(s)	Hons, Pavel (OU-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID}
Source Title	Archiv orientální: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies. - : Orientální ústav AV ČR, v. v. i. - ISSN 0044-8699 Roč. 76, č. 4 (2008), s. 554-556
Number of pages	17 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords	reduplication ; Tamil ; expressivity
Subject RIV	AI - Linguistics
CEZ	AV0Z90210515 - OU-W (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000269666400003
Annotation	The article deals with reduplication in Tamil. First, it arranges various types of reduplication into five groups, according to one formal criterion – what is reduplicated. Then it focuses on phonetic reduplication, i.e. partial reduplication where the second word (the reduplicant) copies the phonetic structure of the base word to produce a rhyming pair. It classifies the examples of phonetic reduplication into several subgroups. The first large group contains pairs of fully lexical words, which have been put together because they sound similar and produce a rhyming pair. Here, phonetic reduplication accompanies semantic reduplication. The second large group contains pairs of words in which the second word is a bound word and has no meaning by itself. The eminent example in this category is the echo words, e.g. puli kili „tigers and so on“. These pairs usually have some emotive connotation and speakers use them to express their attitude towards something.
Workplace	Oriental Institute
Contact	Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950
Year of Publishing	2009

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