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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Linguistics Studies
Syllabic structure of clippings
hi 
i wonder if anyone could help me to answer or advise with the problem i´m dealing with. my thesis deals with the recent trends in english word-formation and neologisms, with the focus on the minor processes (blending, clipping, acronyms) and tried to found out some regularities in their creation and prototypical forms.
besides other factors, i analysed clippings from the morphophonological perspective and found out that the prevailing syllabic structure of clippings was a pattern of CVC(consonant-vowel-consonant), for example as in rad (from radical). my examiner gave me a question to explain this tendency, but i couldn´t find any source that would explain more about syllabic structure of clipings and this particular problem.it is known that clippings are unpredictable in their creation in which part will be the source word shortened (not necessarily on the morphneme or syllable boundaries).
i hope there is somebody who could hepl me with this tricky problem and save my defence.thanks a lot in advance
adriana
i wonder if anyone could help me to answer or advise with the problem i´m dealing with. my thesis deals with the recent trends in english word-formation and neologisms, with the focus on the minor processes (blending, clipping, acronyms) and tried to found out some regularities in their creation and prototypical forms. besides other factors, i analysed clippings from the morphophonological perspective and found out that the prevailing syllabic structure of clippings was a pattern of CVC(consonant-vowel-consonant), for example as in rad (from radical). my examiner gave me a question to explain this tendency, but i couldn´t find any source that would explain more about syllabic structure of clipings and this particular problem.it is known that clippings are unpredictable in their creation in which part will be the source word shortened (not necessarily on the morphneme or syllable boundaries).
i hope there is somebody who could hepl me with this tricky problem and save my defence.thanks a lot in advance
adriana
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Anonymous my examiner gave me a question to explain this tendency I can't imagine what sort of explanation your examiner might be looking for. What other theoretical possibilities are there for an English syllable? C-V and V-C?
- Anonymous my examiner gave me a question to explain this tendency I can't imagine what sort of explanation your examiner might be looking for.
- What other theoretical possibilities are there for an English syllable?
- C-V and V-C?
- If you consider that most syllables of English are C-V-C (and not C-V or V-C), and that speakers are most comfortable with what is most familiar to them, it seems to me that you have your "explanation" - though it seems to me so obvious that it's more a matter of common sense than of explaining anything very complicated.
- CJ
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Anonymousmy examiner gave me a question to explain this tendencyI can't imagine what sort of explanation your examiner might be looking for. What other theoretical possibilities are there for an English syllable? C-V and V-C? If you consider that most syllables of English are C-V-C (and not C-V or V-C), and that speakers are most comfortable with what is
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