1) Also called invention, is a morphological process by which new words are invented. a) Suppletion b) Reduplication c) Acronym d) word coinage 2) This refers to the words adopted from other languages a) Clipping b) Symbolism c) word coinage d) Borrowing 3) Is a morphological process in which the parts of two or more words are combined to form a new word. a) Acronym b) Clipping c) Blending d) word coinage 4) Is a popular word-formation process in which an initialism is pronounced as a word. It forms from the first letter of each word in a phrase. a) word coinage b) Suppletion c) Borrowing d) Acronym 5) Is the processes whereby new words are formed by shortening other words by eliminating the initial part, the last part, or both parts, of those words. a) Clipping b) Back Formation c) Blending d) Acronym 6) Consists in a complete change in the form of a root or in the replacement of root by another morphologically unrelated root with the same component of meaning in different grammatical contents. a) Suppletion b) Clipping c) word coinage d) Blending 7) Morphological process in which a new word is created by extracting affixes from another word” a) Clipping b) Acronym c) Back Formation d) word coinage 8) Word formation process in which a new word is created by repeating all or part of a root or a stem, often with a change of vowel or initial consonant. a) Symbolism b) Suppletion c) Borrowing d) Reduplication 9) Consists in altering the internal phonemic structure of a morpheme to indicate grammatical functions a) Blending b) Symbolism c) word coinage d) Clipping

Word Formation Processes

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