Sentence examples for derived words from inspiring English sources
Eskimo-Aleut derived words (i.e., words that are formed in the way that such English words as "winter-ize" or "anti-dis-establish-ment-ari-an-ism" are formed) correspond quite often to simple, nonderived English words.
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.
Stemming refers to the process in which inflected or derived words are reduced to their base form (e.g., fishing → fish).
Using Porter's stemmer, inflected or derived words are reduced to their word stem, base or root forms.
Morpheme frequency effects for derived words (e.g. an influence of the frequency of the base "dark" on responses to "darkness") have been interpreted as evidence of morphemic representation.
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.
The repartition per block was done so that the same number of trials belonging to each category (words, derived pseudo-words, non derived pseudo-words, strings) was presented within each block.
