English Vocabulary Elements by William R. Leben

Author:William R. Leben
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Here are some examples:

In the last example, -n is a suffix found in numbers, with the meaning ‘(number) at a time’.

When combining morphemes would bring together three consonants, often one or two of them is deleted. The rules for Cluster Simplification are complicated and do not need to be learned in detail; the important thing is that long runs of consonants may lose one or more consonant.

among other variants.

Cluster Simplification rules ordinarily don’t apply when the cluster is due to prefixation, except when the prefix is ex‐. Note how the [s]-Deletion rule applies as well: ex‐vade → *esvade → evade. Now consider cases where ex- appears before [s], as when prefixed to spec ‘look, see’, secr ‘holy’, and cess ‘go, let go’:

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