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  2. List of forms of word play - Wikipedia

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    Caesar shift: moving all the letters in a word or sentence some fixed number of positions down the alphabet; Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words. Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic origin; Auto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meanings; Autogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own ...

  3. Word formation - Wikipedia

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    the word televise is a back-formation of television; The process is motivated by analogy: edit is to editor as act is to actor. This process leads to a lot of denominal verbs. The productivity of back-formation is limited, with the most productive forms of back-formation being hypocoristics. [5]

  4. Three-way call - Wikipedia

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  5. Blocking (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, blocking is the morphological phenomenon in which a possible form for a word cannot surface because it is "blocked" by another form whose features are the most appropriate to the surface form's environment. [1] More basically, it may also be construed as the "non-occurrence of one form due to the simple existence of another." [2]

  6. Morphology (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language. [1] [2] Most approaches to morphology investigate the structure of words in terms of morphemes, which are the smallest units in a language with some independent meaning.

  7. Conference call - Wikipedia

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    The more limited three-way calling is available (usually at an extra charge) on home or office phone lines. For a three-way call, the first called party is dialed. Then the hook flash button (or recall button) is pressed and the other called party's phone number is dialed. While it is ringing, flash/recall is pressed again to connect the three ...

  8. Nonconcatenative morphology - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of one version of the derivation of the Arabic word muslim in autosegmental phonology, with root consonants associating (shown by dotted grey lines). Nonconcatenative morphology , also called discontinuous morphology and introflection , is a form of word formation and inflection in which the root is modified and which does not involve ...

  9. Lexicalization - Wikipedia

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    One way sign languages adopt new words is through fingerspelling, but in some cases these borrowings undergo a systemic transformation in form and meaning to become what are referred to as 'lexicalized signs' [5] or 'loan signs.' These manual borrowings can act the same as other signs and can undergo regularly morphological changes. [6]