Linguistic. In the Pokmon game, players collect creatures called Pokmon.With enough training and points, creatures can evolve

Linguistic.

In the Pokémon game, players collect creatures called Pokémon.With enough training and points, creatures can evolve into abigger, stronger versions. When a Pokémon evolves, it also gets adifferent name. Your job is to discover some of the linguisticpatterns in the evolution of Pokémon names.

(12 points)

Here’s an example:

Charmander evolves into Charmeleon

Pidgey evolves into Pidgeotto

Paras evolves into Parasect

In this set, when each Pokémon evolves, its name adds asyllable. There are also some vowel changes, but these are notconsistent across the set. What is consistent across all threenames is that the evolved name is one syllable longer than theunevolved name.

For each of the following three sets of names, your job is todiscover and describe the pattern of name changes that is commonacross the set. Note: you won’t get very farif you focus on very narrow details such as, [p] turns into [?].Instead, you should look for patterns across groups of similarsounds. For each pattern that you find, explain the pattern usingat least two examples from the set.

Set A:

Pikachu evolves into Raichu

Espeon evolves into Umbreon

Snubbull evolves into Granbull

Meditite evolves into Medicham

Kricketot evolves into Kricketune

Set B:

Kabuto evolves into Kabutops

Ratatta evolves into Raticate

Togepi evolves into Togetic

Hitmonlee evolves into Hitmonchan

Stunky evolves into Skuntank

Mudbray evolves into Mudsdale

Cacnea evolves into Cacturne

Zorua evolves into Zoroark

Set C:

Dragonair evolves into Dragonite

Duskull evolves into Dusclops

Helioptile evolves into Heliolisk