Can stand on their own as independent words

Cannot stand on their own as independent words.

Never change the form class of the words or morphemes to which they are attached.

Added to root morphemes or stems to derive new words.

Changing the syntactic category of the item to which it is attached

 house (N)  $\rightarrow$  house (V); fast (Adj)  $\rightarrow$  fast (Adv) 

It is  a brand new word based on no pre-existing morphemes

It is a combination of parts of two pre-existing forms

It is a shortened form of a pre-existing forms

It is a word formed from the first letters(s) of each word in a phrase

Hamburger  $<$  Hamburg (Germany)

This process forms a word by removing what is mistaken for an affix

A process that results from a sound becoming more like another nearby sound in terms of one or more of its phonetic characteristics.

A process that results in two sounds becoming less alike in articulatory or acoustic terms.

A process that removes a segment from certain phonetic contexts.

A process that inserts a syllable or a non-syllabic segment within an existing string of segment

A process that reorders or reverses a sequence of segments.

Gym  $<$   gymnasium

Scuba  is an example of?