Difference between revisions of "Clipping"
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Latest revision as of 15:49, 24 April 2008
In morphology, clipping is an unproductive type of word formation which produces new words on the basis of existing words by simply cutting off one or more syllables.
Example
The word mike which is made out of microphone.
Comment
It is often argued that this type of word-formation does not belong to the I-language.
