MORPHOLEX lists all the regular inflectional + derivational affixes in the families of a text or word list according to
Bauer & Nation's (1993) framework of morphological complexity. 'Regular' here means attached to an identifiable base word. This routine is a 'profiler' in that like VP it gives a percent of tokens at each category level plus the number of levels and specific affixes needed to achieve 95% and 98% coverage in a list or text. The target accuracy for this routine is
95% 98% 99%.
Research: Read
a 2020 study using this routine
here.
Demos: Short example texts used in the study + training lists 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 23 seconds each) -
Applied Linguistics Laufer,
text of VST (Vocab Size Test),
Academic Writing BAWE Economics sub-corpus,
Academic Speech BASE Arts seminars sub-corpus,
Late-Night Chat Show Charlie Rose + various,
Informal Conversation BNC Spoken,
Press Murphy,
Fiction Gatsby,
Simplified fiction Lord Jim
or many other graded stories for copy-paste from
here.
NEW Sept '23 » See morpholex profile summary records
here.