Reduplication Process in Birjandi Dialect

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1 MSc. student, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Linguistics, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran

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Reduplication" is a type of morphological process in which some parts of a word or the entire word are repeated, sometimes accompanied by a change in the middle vowel or by a change in the initial consonant. The present study examines the types of reduplication in the Birjandi dialect, which is one of the Persian dialects on the eastern border of Iran and has undergone less development due to its desert location, distance from the capital, and lack of ethnic and linguistic mixing. The research method is descriptive-analytical and the data under study were collected in both documentary and field forms. Relevant dialect texts and glossaries as well as daily conversations of speakers were the main sources of data. To ensure the accuracy of pronunciation and meaning of the selected reduplicant, the researchers focused on the dialect information of 6 poorly literate native speakers over 60 years of age of both genders. The findings showed that full and partial types of reduplication were observed in the Birjandi dialect, and among them, the unadded full type had the highest frequency. Also, the grammatical categories of noun, adjective, onomatopoeia, adverb and verb participated in the reduplication process.

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