Everything about Reduplication

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: ReduplicationA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Capillary pathology with prominent basement membrane reduplication is the hallmark histopathological feature of scleromyositisInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: ReduplicationThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Sequences of Pituitary and Placental Lactogenic and Growth Hormones: Evolution from a Primordial Peptide by Gene ReduplicationCited 252 times
5. Go sideways: Nuaulu languageA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Goemai languageA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Sequences of Pituitary and Placental Lactogenic and Growth Hormones: Evolution from a Primordial Peptide by Gene Reduplication

  H. D. Niall, M. L. Hogan, R. Sauer · 1971 · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 252 citations

• The SCFSlimb ubiquitin ligase regulates Plk4/Sak levels to block centriole reduplication

  Gregory C. Rogers, Nasser M. Rusan, David M. Roberts · 2009 · Journal of Cell Biology · 241 citations

• Centrosome number is controlled by a centrosome-intrinsic block to reduplication

  Connie Wong, Tim Stearns · 2003 · Nature Cell Biology · 164 citations

• Illusory Reduplication of One's Own Body: Phenomenology and Classification of Autoscopic Phenomena

  Peter Brugger, Marianne Regard, Theodor Landis · 1997 · Cognitive Neuropsychiatry · 151 citations

• Centriole Reduplication during Prolonged Interphase Requires Procentriole Maturation Governed by Plk1

  Jadranka Lončarek, Polla Hergert, Alexey Khodjakov · 2010 · Current Biology · 132 citations

• Contrastive Focus Reduplication in English (The Salad-Salad Paper)

  Jila Ghomeshi, Ray Jackendoff, Nicole Rosen · 2004 · Natural Language & Linguistic Theory · 130 citations

• Reduplication and syllable transfer in Sanskrit and elsewhere

  Donca Steriade · 1988 · Phonology · 127 citations

• Basement membrane reduplication and pericyte degeneration precede development of diabetic polyneuropathy and are associated with its severity

  Caterina Giannini, Peter J. Dyck · 1995 · Annals of Neurology · 124 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Capillary pathology with prominent basement membrane reduplication is the hallmark histopathological feature of scleromyositis

  Benjamin Ellezam, Valérie Leclair, Yves Troyanov · 2022 · Neuropathology and Applied Neurobiology · 24 citations

• Band reduplication of perfect metamaterial terahertz absorber with an added layer: cross symmetry concept

  Pouria Zamzam, Pejman Rezaei, Omid Mohsen Daraei · 2023 · Optical and Quantum Electronics · 20 citations

• Reduplication in Assamese: Identification and Modeling

  Dhrubajyoti Pathak, Sukumar Nandi, Priyankoo Sarmah · 2022 · ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing · 8 citations

• Sounds cute: Exploring the role of sound reduplication in brand names

  Kosuke Motoki, Sayo Iseki, Abhishek Pathak · 2025 · International Journal of Research in Marketing · 7 citations

• Discontinuous reduplication: a typological sketch

  Simone Mattiola, Francesca Masini · 2022 · STUF - Language Typology and Universals · 7 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• ReduplicationSharon Inkelas · 2005
• Form and meaning in word formationRudolf P. Botha · 1988
• Quaestiones de reduplicatione graeca ...Adolf Richard Fritzsche · 1873
• 📕Slavi︠a︡nskai︠a︡ leksika zvukosimvolicheskogo proiskhozhdenii︠a︡Zhivka Koleva-Zlateva · 2008
• Reduplication In The Chadic LanguagesBello S. Y. Al-Hassan · 1997
• Twice as MeaningfulEdited by Silvia Kouwenberg · 2003
• 📕Reduplikasi morfemis bahasa IndonesiaMaurits Dakhtar Soaloon Simatupang · 1979
• 📕Reduplicative words in EnglishNils Thun · 1963

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