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The lecture discusses conversion and shortening as types of word formation in English, highlighting their historical development, structural characteristics, and semantic relations. Conversion is a unique feature of English where one part of speech is formed from another without affixes, while shortening involves reducing words for efficiency in communication. Both processes are significant in modern English, reflecting linguistic and extra-linguistic influences on language evolution.
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