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4、Acronym（首字母拼音词） ： A word created by combining the initial letters of a number of words. VOA ; VOICE OF AMERICA美国之声 BBC;British Broad-casting Corporation 英国广播公司 UFO ; Unidentified flying object 不明飞行物 GNP; Gross National Product国民生产总值 GRE;Graduate Record Examination美国研究生入学考试 5、Back-formation逆构法: a process by which new words are formed by taking away the imagined suffix of an existing word. E.g. donation→donate; orator→orate; gloomy→gloom; 6、Analogical creation（类推构词） the principle of analogical creation can account for the co-existence of two for