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Kang, Seok-keun & Yang, Seon-ki. (2015). A Morphological Analysis of English SMS abbreviations. The Linguistic Association of Korea Journal, 23(2), 37-51. The purpose of this paper is to survey English abbreviations that are currently used in text messaging and online chat, and to provide a morphological account of them. To this end, we collected 1159 data with morphological properties from five online dictionaries and five websites/blogs, and analyzed them by the processes by which they were formed. The results showed that about 92.49% of all the data were initialisms. Compared with initialism, word-formational processes such as blending, clipping, onomatopoeia etc. were relatively infrequently used to make SMS abbreviations. Clipped words accounted for only 4.06% (47 words) of the collected data, which was followed by onomatopoeia/mimetic words (0.69%), symbols (0.51%) and blends (0.43%). This analysis shows a rather different result from previous analyses (Kumar 2012; Anjaneyulu 2013)

# 두문자어(initialism) # 절단법(clipping) # 혼성법(blending) # 의성어(onomatopoeia) # 의태어(mimetic word) # SMS 약어(SMS abbreviations)