Sentence examples for derived word from inspiring English sources

The fact that the study used only one measurement of morphological awareness (derived word analogy task) might be considered a limitation as the hypothetical use of more measures might have made it possible to calculate a composed and more accurate measure of this variable.

The task assessed an individual's ability to transform a base word into a derived word.

Similarly, we ran 2 Morphological Complexity × 2 Task Type repeated measures ANOVAs for the three derived word types.

In accordance with a broader definition of morphological awareness, we included both inflected and derived word types.

Results indicated that for all derived word types, adults with low literacy skills were more accurate on matched control words than on complex words.

We propose that the words were too familiar to the adults because complex and pseudocomplex words were high frequency and relatively easier words in relation to the other derived word types in this study.

Multiple regression showed that base morpheme frequency and family size were independent predictors of response times to derived words.

Base morpheme frequency facilitated responses but only to productively suffixed derived words, whereas family size facilitated responses irrespective of productivity.

Using Porter's stemmer, inflected or derived words are reduced to their word stem, base or root forms.

Since both types of derived words have the same surface structure, our findings suggest that morphological processing is based on underlying morphological complexity, independent of overt affixation.

Stemming refers to the process in which inflected or derived words are reduced to their base form (e.g., fishing → fish).