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Example 64-52
béle béle
béle~béle
country~country
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Comment:
Here reduplication causes a word class change: noun > adjective.
Type:
naturalistic spoken
Source:
Miller 1993
: 161
Language:
Juba Arabic
by
Stefano Manfredi
and
Sara Petrollino
cite
Datapoints:
Functions of reduplication: Word-class-changing function
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