If a word with more than one syllable is reduced to a shortened form [e.g.; laboratory to the lab, gasoline to gas, advertisement to ad] this process will be termed as:

A. Compounding
B. Clipping
C. Hypocorism
D. Conversion

B. Clipping

Linguistics mcqs

LINGUISTICS
1. Intro to Language 2. Intro to Linguistics
3. Phonetics 4. Phonology
5. Morphology 6. Syntax
7. Semantics 8. Pragmatics
9. Stylistics 10. Applied Linguistics
11. Socio-Linguistics 12. Psycho-Linguistics
13. Discourse Analysis 14. Corpus

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