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Example 3-29

wɛti-wɛti

wɛti~wɛti

white.red

whitish

Comment:: Reduplication here has an attenuating function.
Type:: naturalistic spoken
Source:: Bakker 2003: 76

Language:

Saramaccan by Enoch O. Aboh and Tonjes Veenstra and Norval S.H. Smith

Datapoints:

Functions of reduplication: Attenuating and word-class-changing function

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