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    Word formation processes in English include blending, where two words are merged to form a new word, such as motel from motorist and hotel. Acronyms form new words from the initial letters of phrases, like Scuba. Affixation involves adding prefixes or suffixes to roots to derive new words, as in hopeful or improvement.

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    Word formation processes in English include blending, where two words are merged to form a new word, such as motel from motorist and hotel. Acronyms form new words from the initial letters of phrases, like Scuba. Affixation involves adding prefixes or suffixes to roots to derive new words, as in hopeful or improvement.

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    Word formation processes in English include blending, where two words are merged to form a new word, such as motel from motorist and hotel. Acronyms form new words from the initial letters of phrases, like Scuba. Affixation involves adding prefixes or suffixes to roots to derive new words, as in hopeful or improvement.

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    Word Formation Processes 6.

    Blending two words are merged and


    the result is blended word
    How do we form new words in English? a. Motel (motorist and hotel)
    b. Smog (smoke and fog
    1. Zero derivation in which the form of c. Oplan (operational plan)
    a word is unchanged, but its function d. Spork (spoon and fork)
    is changed
    a. run (verb); run (noun) 7. Acronym formed by taking the first
    b. walk (verb); walk (noun) letter or the two initial letters of words
    or phrases and making a new word out
    2. Stress shift in which the audible of them.
    emphasis of a syllable changes to a. Scuba (self-contained
    create a new word underwater breathing
    a. reject (noun, stress on first apparatus)
    syllable); reject (verb, stress on b. Radar (radio detection and
    the second syllable ranging)
    b. record c. DOLE ( Department of Labor
    and Employment)
    3. Ablaut an alteration of vowels d. DOJ (Department of Justice)
    a. Man men e. Lol (laugh out loud)
    b. Goose geese
    c. Sing sang sung 8. Onomatopoeia (echoism) a word that
    imitates the sound it represents.
    4. Compounding forms a word out of a. Achoo
    two separate words. (Compound b. Ahem
    words) c. Mwah
    a. Band + wagon d. Tsup
    b. Every +one e. Slurp
    c. Broom + stick
    9. Coinage refers to the invention of
    5. Clipping the word formation process new terms or the use of proper names
    which consists in the reduction of a or trade which eventually become
    word to one of its parts. common words that refer to a general
    Initial clipping (apheresis) bot type of product, regardless of the
    {robot}; gator {alligator}; bus brand.
    (omnibus) a. Colgate
    Final clipping (apocope) - frat b. Xerox
    {fraternity}; prof {professor} c. Aspirin
    condo {condominium}
    Medial clipping (syncope) 10.Reduplication repeating of parts of
    words with a final-clipped words to make new words, usually
    they rhyme.
    stem retaining the functional
    a. Zigzag
    morpheme: maths
    b. Bling-bling
    (mathematics), specs
    c. Walkie-talkie
    (spectacles)
    d. Knock-knock
    contractions due to a
    gradual process of elision
    11.Affixation the addition of one or
    under the influence of
    more affixes to a root. This covers
    rhythm and context: fancy
    both prefixation and suffixation.
    (fantasy), ma'am (madam)
    a. Hopeful
    Complex clipping - comp sci b. Improvement
    {computer science}; Fil-Am c. Irresponsible
    {Filipino-American};

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