Difference between revisions of "Clipping"

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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.

Link

Utrecht Lexicon of Linguistics