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How to pronounce “back-formation”
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- Practice the English pronunciation of back-formation with real speech in context.
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- Dr. Becky Smethurst
- Definition summary
- (uncountable, linguistics) The process by which a new word is formed from an older word by interpreting the former as a derivative of the latter, often by removing a morpheme (real or perceived) from the older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as an agent-noun suffix) from burglar.
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How to pronounce back-formation
Dr. Becky Smethurst
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable, linguistics) The process by which a new word is formed from an older word by interpreting the former as a derivative of the latter, often by removing a morpheme (real or perceived) from the older word, such as the verb burgle, formed by removing -ar (perceived as an agent-noun suffix) from burglar.
- (countable) A word created in this way.
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