Definition

1. Verb:
   • To make or do or perform again: To repeat an action, process, or creation, often to produce an identical or similar copy.
   • To form by reduplication: In linguistics, to repeat all or part of a word (e.g., a syllable or morpheme) to create a new grammatical form or to add emphasis.

Usage and Examples

• Verb (To make/do again):

  • The scientist attempted to reduplicate the experiment's results to confirm their validity.
  • He could never reduplicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick.

• Verb (Linguistic process):

  • In some languages, verbs reduplicate to indicate a repeated or ongoing action.
  • The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word.
  • The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel.

Advanced Usage

• In Grammar and Language Studies: The term is specifically used to describe a morphological process where a root, stem, or part of a word is repeated.
  • The linguistic phenomenon where a word is reduplicated is common in many Asian and Austronesian languages.

Variants and Related Words

• Reduplication (n): The action or result of reduplicating; a word formed by this process.
  • "Bye-bye" is an example of reduplication in English.
• Reduplicative (adj): Characterized by or involving reduplication.
  • The language has a reduplicative form for expressing plurality.

Synonyms

• Repeat: To say or do something again.
• Replicate: To make an exact copy of; to reproduce.
• Duplicate: To make an identical copy of something.

Different Meanings

• The primary meanings are distinct but related: one is a general act of repetition or copying, while the other is a specific technical term in linguistics for a word-formation process.

Verb

1. make or do or perform again
   • He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick
2. form by reduplication
   • The consonant reduplicates after a short vowel
   • The morpheme can be reduplicated to emphasize the meaning of the word