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It is called contrastive focus reduplication in one popular analysis (Ghomeshi et al (2004)). In Lee (2006) you will see the type of intonation on the first instance of the repeated word ("B accent") referred to as a case of contrastive topic. Both papers are nice reads if you're into that sort of thing.

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