LING 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reduplication, Part Of Speech, Affix
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A process that involves copying all or part of a stem. Where an entire stem is reduplicated, the process is referred to as total reduplication. Word formation in which only a part of a base is reduplicated is referred to as partial reduplication (in the examples below, a period indicated syllable divisions) Reduplicate the initial vowel and any immediately preceding or following consonant. The substitution of one or more sounds in a morpheme in order to provide morphological contrast. An acronym is a word that is formed by combining the initial part of some or all of the words in a phrase. An acronym that is pronounced as a sequence of sounds rather than a word. A process in which words are formed by combining parts of different words, typically the first part of one word and the final part of another. A process in which a word is formed by deleting one or more syllables from an existing word.
