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Example 49-68
Gad jan figi tifi a takte takte.
Gad
look
jan
how
figi
face
tifi
young.girl
a
def
takte~takte.
speckled~speckled
Look how speckled the young girl's face is.
French:
Regarde comme le visage de la jeune fille est tacheté.
Comment:
NB: From this reduplicated word it is possible to create another lexical unit by apocope :
figi takte
>
figi takte takte
>
figi tak tak
(hypocoristic).
Type:
constructed by linguist
Source:
Own knowledge
Language:
Haitian Creole
by
Dominique Fattier
cite
Datapoints:
Functions of reduplication: Attenuating function
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