Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
morphologically parsing, Cebuano lexicon, speech recognition, conjugated forms
College
Humanities
Department
Linguistics
Abstract
A morpheme is the smallest grammatical unit of meaning such as a prefix, a root word, or a suffix. Morphology then, is the study of the processes by which morphemes combine to form words.1 Understanding how words are formed is imperative to such applications as speech recognition, web searches, and corpus searches, which depend on identifying every instance of a word, including all inflected forms. For example, a search for the word run must recognize running, runner, and ran as possible results even though they have additional morphemes or irregular conjugated forms. In addition to technical applications, understanding morphology is a necessary decoding skill for both natural speech and reading comprehension.
Recommended Citation
Bodily, Jarren and Lonsdale, Dr. Deryle
(2014)
"Morphologically Parsing the Cebuano Lexicon,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014:
Iss.
1, Article 682.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/682