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CATEGORY OF: 1 ST ELEMENT 2 ND ELEMENT COMPOUND telephone tag N N N software Adj N N bozo filter N N N 2-7. Cyber- became a popular prefix in the 1990s. It was attached principally to nouns to form new nouns, as in cyberlove, cyberland, cyberspace, and cybercowboy. List ten words that use the prefix cyber-, identifying any examples of cyber- prefixed to a lexi- cal category other than noun. 2-8. Draw trees similar to the one in Figure 2–1 on page 45 for these English words: revaccinations recapitalization unlikelihood reassuringly disenchantment unreasonableness unshockability updated 2-9. Consider the two analyses of untruthful given below. Give arguments for preferring one analysis over the other. a. [[[un[true Adj ] Adj ]th N ]ful Adj ] b. [un[[[true Adj ]th N ]ful Adj ] Adj ] 2-10. The following terms are associated with computer or Internet use. For each one, iden- tify the kind of formation compound, shortening, acronym, conversion, and so on and its lexical category. Example: chatgroup— compound, noun client-server cyberizing FAQ source code mouse cyberspace PC programming language a flame to flame out IMHO to download info pike a lurker to e-mail code writer Internetter I-way to lurk newbee or newbie info superpike netiquette netter domain name Mac a remailer smileys browser spamming a sysop a thread cyberenthusiast a twit filter WYSIWYG software to keyboard 2-11. a. Graduates of the University of California at Los Angeles call their alma mater “U-C-L-A,” but it is sometimes lightly referred to as “youkla” or “ookla.” Which of these three pronunciations would count as acronyms? b. From the list that follows, identify four acronyms and four initialisms: DNA, STD, AIDS, SIDS, NBA, HIV, NHS, NHL, UNESCO, UN, UK, BBC, NATO. c. What’s interesting about the words CD-ROM and JPEG? 2-12. a. As determined by their frequency in a million-word corpus of texts the Brown Cor- pus, the 26 most common words in printed American English are listed below. The category of a few of these words is already specified. For each of the others, specify its category and then answer the questions that follow. Choose your categories from this list: N noun, V verb, Adj adjective, Prep preposition, Det determiners, including articles, Pro pronoun.