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Can anyone tell me if there is a term for the study of words that have multiple, consecutive, identical syllables such as the word "murmur". Additionally, can anyone think of other such words that are not nonsensical words.

Tomtom, frou-frou, tutu, juju, berber, dada, ack-ack, maumau, plenty of babytalk examples like mama, papa and booboo and the majorly cheating hotshots (*grin*), to name a few. There'll be plenty more, I'm sure.

If there *isn't* "a term for the study of words that have multiple, consecutive, identical syllables" I would like to nominate "ologyology."

"Reduplication" can be used for a word formed that way as well as for the process of forming it.

An idle thought - why is it *re*duplication? Isn't that tautologous? Aren't murmur et al. examples of syllable duplication, and not reduplication? Well, unless someone can come up with a word of three or more identical syllables, that is :)