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MorphoLex Affix Profiler     v.6 (2025-04-04) Data recording; list+text capacities   Read a 2023 study that reviews+uses Morpholex
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).

1. Choose/paste input  or                  `

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3. Choose an output format:
  Raw Columns     4. show profile

 

 

Related: • Check Webb & Sasao's Word Parts Levels Test (WPLT) test and paper at   tests 
               • Check Concordance   output (Family + keyword search) for morph-out by frequency across corpora