If a long word is reduced to a single syllable and then ‘’y’’ or ’’íe’’ is added to the end to make new words[ e.g. handkerchief to hankie and breakfast to breaky] the process:

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

C. Hypocorism

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

Which one part of a word is joined with another part of another word, such types of words in linguistics terminology are called:

A. Acronyms
B. Portmanteau/ blending
C. Palindrome
D. Slang

B. Portmanteau/ blending

Which one part of a word is joined with another part of other words, we get a new word. This process is known as:

A. Coinage
B. Calques
C. Blending
D. Compounding

C. Blending

When the name of a company becomes the name of its product, it is called:

A. Coinage
B. Calques
C. Blending
D. Compounding

A. Coinage

The bound morpheme er acts as an inflectional morpheme in?

A. Actor
B. Character
C. Quieter
D. Writer

C. Quieter

The use of the verb Google in the phrase “google it” represents a case of word-formation via

A. Borrowing
B. Coinage
C. Conversion
D. Derivation

C. Conversion

__________ is the study of words, how they are formed, and their relationship to others in the same language.

A. Syntax
B. Linguistics
C. Morphology
D. Phonetics

C. Morphology

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