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consonant and another rule that deletes a syllable final nasal consonant,
producing words like [bõ] from underlying /bon/. If the nasal deletion rule
were applied before the vowel nasalization rule, this would destroy the input
to the second rule and [bõ] could not be derived. Bleeding order is contrasted
with a feeding order,inwhich the output from one rule becomes the input
to another. For example, English has both a plural formation rule that produce
consonant clusters in words like tests and dogs, and consonant cluster
simplification rules that apply somewhat differently in different varieties. If
a speaker pronounces a word such as tests as if it were “tess”, this suggests
that plural formation has applied first and has fed (created the environment
for) the consonant simplification rule. However, if a speaker pronounces
tests as if it were “tesses”, this suggests that consonant cluster simplification
applied first and fed (created the environment for) the plural formation rule.
blend n
another term for PORTMANTEAU WORD
Bloom’s taxonomy
blending n
also portmanteau word
in MORPHOLOGY, a relatively unproductive process of WORD FORMATION
by which new words are formed from the beginning (usually the first
phoneme or syllable) of one word and the ending (often the RHYME) of
another. Examples of blends formed this way are English smog (formed
from smoke and fog), vog (volcano and fog), brunch (breakfast and
lunch), and Singlish, Taglish, and Japlish from Singapore English,
Tagalog English, and Japanese English, respectively.
Blending is usually not considered part of I-LANGUAGE.
blocking n
in MORPHOLOGY, a process that blocks the application of an unproductive
word formation rule, if it would produce a word with the same semantics
as an already existing word. For example, the English suffixes –ness
(productive) and –ity (unproductive) are very similar (compare
curious/curiosity and furious/furiousness). Since words such as graciousness
and gloriousness exist, new words graciocity and gloriocity cannot
be created.
see also ACCIDENTAL GAP
Bloom’s taxonomy n
a taxonomy of OBJECTIVES for the cognitive domain (see DOMAIN) developed
by the American educationalist, B. S. Bloom, and widely referred to
in education and educational planning. Bloom’s taxonomy consists of 6
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