Question

In Tok Pisin, the most widely spoken language in Papua New Guinea, this morphological process turns the word "kala," meaning "color," into "kala-kala," meaning "multicolored." For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this morphological process in which part or all of a word is repeated to create a new word.
ANSWER: reduplication [do not accept "duplication"]
[10e] Tok Pisin indicates plurality by attaching the morpheme "-pela" to words, an example of this type of morpheme that is attached after the stem of a word. "-ing" endings are examples of this type of morpheme in English.
ANSWER: suffixes [prompt on affixes]
[10h] A strong influence on Tok Pisin was communication among Papua New Guinean laborers who were sometimes forcibly taken to work on plantations in this Australian state. This state is home to most speakers of the Paman and Dyirbalic Aboriginal language families.
ANSWER: Queensland
<Eve Fleisig , Social Science - Linguistics>

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