Armeni Preventable Or Reduplicated Form Was Predictable?

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ARMENIAN PHONOLOGY
GINA M. AILANJIAN
California State University Fresno

Armenian is an Indo-European language that is spoken in the Republic of Armenian and Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. I focused on Eastern Armenian, which varies from Western Armenian. I was looking at the pattern of reduplication represented in pairs like ‘sev’ black and ‘sep sev’ very black. I tried to conclude whether the reduplicated form was predictable. I tested the efficiency of the system by exploring borrowed or made-up adjectives. I found that it was very predictable. All of the borrowed and made-up adjectives had the came ‘ʃad’ in front of them, I also tested if I changed the adverb ‘very’ to ‘too’ would that change the outcome. It did not. The speaker told me that wasn’t allowed and didn’t make sense. I found that the only way the adverb could change to ‘too’ would be if the word were a color. If it were ‘too yellow’ then the adverb would change to ‘kots’ …show more content…

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