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As was shown in section 3.4, the vast majority of the 702 base-derivative pairs in the corpus can be assigned to four major truncatory patterns: simple monosyllabic clippings, y-suffixed and o-suffixed disyllabic clippings, and unsuffixed disyllabic clippings with stress on the final syllable. Examples are ack (<acknowledge), Commie (< Communist), aggro (< aggravation), and celeb (< celebrity).
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Lappe, S. (2007). The Structure of Clippings. In: English Prosodic Morphology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6006-9_7
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