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10 Cards in this Set
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example of an infix
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feet
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example of a shortening
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jet (jet airplane)
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example of an acronym
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NASA
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example of an initialism
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TMC
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example of a blend
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smog
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example of back formation
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typewrite (from typewriter)
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conversion or functional shift
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"update" (can be a noun or verb)
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semantic shift
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computer mouse
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derivational morpheme
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changes meaning and lexical category of a word
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inflectional morpheme
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changes the form of the word
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