1.2 A Glimpse into Morphology

The study of words, their internal structures and how they are formed

“source: http://designpublic.in/blogs/morphological-awareness-underrated-contributor-reading-ability/”

• English has a pretty low ratio of morphemes (smallest unit of part of a word with meaning)
  • eg “un-”, “break”, “-able”
• Understanding morphological characteristics are beneficial for pre-processing, removing stopwords, and end stemming