MORPHOLEX lists and calculates the proportions of all the regular inflectional + derivational affixes in a text or word list according to
Bauer & Nation's (B+N; 1993) framework of morphological complexity.
'Regular' here means attached to an identifiable base word, or free morpheme, like quick + ly, but not gorm + less as gorm* is not a current English word. This routine is a 'profiler' in that like VP it gives a percent of tokens at each level and the specific number of affixes needed to achieve 95% and 98% coverage in the text/list (
irrespective of B+N membership). The present accuracy for this routine is average
95% 98% 99.1%.
Research:
A 2020 study using this routine >>>here. ||
Demos: Short example texts are in the menu below; click these links >>> to get larger texts used in the study to copy/paste and replicate (
in 10,000 word segments, which need c.20 seconds each, lists more) -
Applied Linguistics Laufer,
text of VST (Vocab Size Test),
Academic Writing BAWE Economics sub-corpus,
Academic Speech BASE Arts seminars sub-corpus,
Press Murphy,
Fiction Great Gatsby (complete),
Simplified fiction Lord Jim
or many other graded stories for copy-paste from
here.
NEW Sept '23 » See morpholex profile summary records
here.
NEW Jan '25 » Size Limits: any size text can be entered but only 10,000 words are processed per run (text) or 5,000 (lists) (>25 secs for either); use 'chop' controls to reduce input & re-run, combine output summaries with 'Record Data' (bottom).