rebracketing

English

Etymology

re- + bracketing

Noun

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rebracketing (countable and uncountable, plural rebracketings)

  1. (linguistics) The process by which a word originally derived from one source is broken down or bracketed into a different set of factors.
    Synonyms: metanalysis, resegmentation

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