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Re: Plurals via reduplication in Japanese (was Re: Adopting a plural)

From:Pascal A. Kramm <pkramm@...>
Date:Friday, October 8, 2004, 20:25
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 09:25:45 -0400, Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> wrote:
>Aren't there also some small number of plural nouns in Japanese formed by >reduplication?
I don't think so. The only instance I know where reduplication is actually used is not for plural, but for representing sounds, e.g. "dokidoki" to present the sound of heart beating. Probably it was a list of these sound words you remember, there's a good amount of them. Other than that, "moshomoshi" is generally used when answering the telephone.

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