rebracketing
English
Etymology
re- + bracketing
Noun
rebracketing (countable and uncountable, plural rebracketings)
- (linguistics) The process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors.
- The understanding of "hamburger" as "ham + burger" (rather than "Hamburg" + "-er") is an example of rebracketing.
- Synonyms: metanalysis, resegmentation
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See also
- folk etymology
- reanalysis
- surface analysis