• Rebracketing (also known as resegmentation or metanalysis) is a process in historical linguistics where a word originally derived from one set of morphemes...
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  • rebracketing of asá flots, meaning "[he] farted (masculine, singular)", "[he] made a fart". Boaz Orly, a miserable person, based on the rebracketing of...
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  • caused by reanalysis of the structure of a word include rebracketing and back-formation. In rebracketing, users of the language change, misinterpret, or reinterpret...
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  • eighth album by Acumen Nation. The name Psycho the rapist is a jocular rebracketing of psychotherapist. "Fanglorious" - 4:57 "Hatchet Harry" - 4:16 "Elective...
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    nārang and then Arabic نارنج nāranj. The initial n was lost through rebracketing in Italian and French, though some varieties of Arabic lost the n earlier...
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    Romance languages may be a case of the linguistic phenomenon known as rebracketing, i.e. Romance speakers may have perceived the sound as the initial phoneme...
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    *[par-ʕoʔ] evolved into Sahidic Coptic ⲡⲣ̅ⲣⲟ pərro and then ərro by rebracketing p- as the definite article "the" (from ancient Egyptian pꜣ). Other notable...
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  • variant form originated through the loss of the first syllable through rebracketing and the replacement of final /t/ with /l/ (as /t/ does not appear word-finally...
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    French-language phonology. Resyllabification is related to the process of rebracketing. In English, the word apron is an example of historical resyllabification...
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  • type of tuplet is the triplet. The modern term 'tuplet' comes from a rebracketing of compound words like quintu(s)-(u)plet and sextu(s)-(u)plet, and from...
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