What is it called when a word repeated?
reduplication?
If you make the tuna salad I'll make the "salad-salad"
That car is mine but it isn't "mine mine" it's my brother's
I like him but I don't "like-like" him
Reduplication works. This type of reduplication can also be called contrastive focus reduplication or lexical cloning 123.
Reduplication more generally includes combinations like willy nilly and clip clop 4.