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rebracketing

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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.
Synonyms: metanalysis, resegmentation

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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Another argument in favor of calling the phenomenon rebracketing, instead of infixing, is the fact that it is an isolated case, not a pattern that can be applied to many words, and that is just as most cases of rebracketing are. Source: Internet

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