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Apophony - Ablaut-motivated compounding

Apophony - Ablaut-motivated compounding: Encyclopedia II - Apophony - Ablaut-motivated compounding

Ablaut reduplication or ablaut-motivated compounding is a type of word formation of "expressives" in English (such as onomatopoeia). Examples of these include: tick-tock criss-cross cling-clang snip-snap Here the words are formed by a reduplication of a base and an alternation of the internal vowel. (See English reduplication). ...

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Apophony: Encyclopedia II - Apophony - Ablaut-motivated compounding

Apophony - Ablaut-motivated compounding

Ablaut reduplication or ablaut-motivated compounding is a type of word formation of "expressives" in English (such as onomatopoeia). Examples of these include:

tick-tock
criss-cross
cling-clang
snip-snap

Here the words are formed by a reduplication of a base and an alternation of the internal vowel. (See English reduplication).

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