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Defined as the process of creating new words
Word formation
Other term for word formation
Morphological process
Purpose of word formation
To enrich students’ vocabulary
A word formation shortened while retaining the meaning of the original word.
Clipping
4 types of clipping
Initial clipping, medial/middle clipping, final clipping, and complex clipping
A type of clipping wherein the front is removed
Initial clipping
A type of clipping wherein the middle letters of a word is removed.
Medial/middle clipping
A type of clipping wherein the last part of a word is removed.
Final clipping
A type of clipping where letters from 2 words related to each other are removed to shorten it.
Complex clipping
Parts of two or more words put together
Blending
Two or more words joined together
Compounding
6 types of compounding
noun-noun, adjective-noun, noun-verb, verb-noun, verb-verb, and adjective-verb
Initial letters of phrases, pronounced as one word
Acronym
New words are formed from initial letters and it is pronounced per letter
Abbreviation
A change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one.
Folk etymology