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Reduplication vs Reduplicant - What's the difference?

reduplication | reduplicant |

As nouns the difference between reduplication and reduplicant

is that reduplication is (linguistics) the act of, or an instance of, reduplicating while reduplicant is (linguistic morphology) the reduplicated segment in a word resulting from a reduplication process.

reduplication

English

(wikipedia reduplication)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (linguistics) The act of, or an instance of, reduplicating.

    • Usage notes

    Here are examples of reduplication in English: {, class="wikitable" ! nowrap , EAR types ! Accents, etc. ! Examples , - ! Exact
    type , nowrap, acute-null accents
    baby-talk-like , bye-bye, choo-choo, night night, no-no, pee-pee, poo-poo, etc. , - ! Ablaut
    type , nowrap, acute-grave accents
    high-low vowels
    front-back vowels , bric-a-brac, chit-chat, criss-cross, kitty-cat, knick-knack, jibber-jabber, splish-splash, zig-zag, sing-song, etc. , - ! Rhymed
    type , nowrap, acute-acute accents
    varied initials , claptrap, hokey-pokey, honey bunny, razzle-dazzle, slim jim, super-duper, teeny-weeny, wingding, etc. , }

    Derived terms

    * endoreduplication * contrastive focus reduplication

    reduplicant

    English

    Noun

    (s)
  • (linguistic morphology) The reduplicated segment in a word resulting from a reduplication process.
    • The second ''bar'' in the Ancient Greek word ''barbaros'' is a reduplicant .