LING 3005 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reduplication, Front Vowel, Sound Symbolism
27 Jan 2016
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Reduplication some part of the stem is copied. The part that is copied is the reduplicate. Iconic meaning attempts to have full meaning. Ex, onomatopoeia best example of iconic meaning, only an attempt. Sound symbolism: certain sounds are correlate with certain meanings. Iconic meaning = small bird, tweet has a high front vowel. Big bear, roar had a low back vowel. Eg, shades of red can be considered just red, but pure red is also. Complete reduplication, aka contrastive english reduplication known as red-red word. Reduplication is used in this case to give more meaning to this. In this case what is being reduplicated is also being dismissed. The word table" receives different definitions once it has become a. These definitions are also the opposites of each other, making. Conversion (textbook term)/functional shift (best description)/ zero derivation (prof"s term) verb them auto-antonyms. The following terms are not morphologic: word coinage, blending, acronyms, initialisms.
