%0 Journal Article
%T REDUPLICATIVE SYLLABLES IN ROMANCE LANGUAGES
%A Piechnik, Iwona
%J Romanica Cracoviensia
%V Tom 15 (2015)
%R 10.4467/20843917RC.15.003.4000
%N Tom 15, Numer 1
%P 30-55
%K reduplication, repetition, doubling, Latin, Romance languages, monosyllables, polysyllables, syllables
%@ 1732-8705
%D 2015
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/romanica-cracoviensia/artykul/reduplicative-syllables-in-romance-languages
%X 
	The article deals with the reduplications in Latin and in Romance languages. While in Latin there were only reduplications of monosyllables, Romance languages have a lot of polysyllabic (mostly disyllabic) reduplications. This development could arise due to a bigger expressivity of vulgar Latin mixed with vernacular languages and to their contacts with other languages: Germanic (mostly English and German), Celtic, Slavic, Turkic and Hungarian, in which the polysyllabic reduplication is the most common.