Reduplication (Twin Words) in Turkish with Reference to English

Abbas Dawood, Mahmood

	Reduplication (Twin Words) in Turkish with Reference to English
Journal of Tikrit University for the Humanities
Article 1, Volume 20, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 646-663
Author
Mahmood Abbas Dawood
Abstract
ABSTRACT In order to share ideas and feelings effectively besides using gestures and intonation in speech, vocabulary is also considered as a useful way. The more vocabularies you have, the clearer and more accurate ideas you express. Word formation processes are the most common ways to enrich vocabulary. This ability to adopt, understand, and use such a new word results from the fact that these word-formation processes are based on certain rules and regulations. These processes are very important for language users, because the constant creation of new terms and new uses of old terms is a sign of vitality, flexibility, and creativeness. This paper has been conducted to mention the similarities and differences between English and Turkish word formation in general and the process of reduplication in particular. At the beginning, the researcher gives a general idea of word formation in English and Turkish then explains the morphological rules that determine the reduplication process in the languages under study. The phonological and the semantic properties have also been discussed throughout this paper. Sufficient examples have been given in both languages to clarify the idea. At the end of the paper, there are the major findings and conclusions that the researcher reached as a result of the comparison between English and Turkish as far as the process of reduplication is concerned.

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