<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Alexander,</div><div><br></div><div>the answer will depend a lot on the type of data you have and what you want exactly.</div><div>We describe two generic alignment tools here <a href="https://scholarworks.umass.edu/scil/vol4/iss1/21/">https://scholarworks.umass.edu/scil/vol4/iss1/21/</a> , but these don't find 'morphemes'.</div><div>That, you'd have to extract from the alignments.</div><div>Alternatively, you can try morfessor: <a href="https://morfessor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">https://morfessor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</a>, but results will depend on many factors, like corpus size and variety.</div><div>One thing though, Quechua is relatively 'easy' and you could try to do 'morpheme' segmentation by hand, just by listing everything you consider to be a morpheme, and checking each word.</div><div><br></div><div>But this might be an XY problem (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem</a>), so maybe you want to tell us exactly what is it you want to do?</div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El mié, 25 oct 2023 a las 23:46, Alexander Rice (<<a href="mailto:ax.h.rice@gmail.com">ax.h.rice@gmail.com</a>>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Howdy folks</div><div><br></div><div>I'm interested in finding average morphemes per word in a Quechuan language I'm working on. I'd be looking at overall average morphemes per word, nouns vs. verbs, etc.<br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm wondering if there are software tools or R scripts out there for doing this kind of thing. I could do it myself from scratch in R, but why reinvent the wheel if you don't need to?</div><div><br></div><div>Any links or references to resources/guides, pointers, advice, etc. is most appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>best,</div><div>--Alex <br></div><div><br><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font style="color:rgb(136,136,136)" size="1">Alexander Rice, <a href="https://www.su.ualberta.ca/services/thelanding/learn/pronouns/" target="_blank">(he, him, his)</a>, </font><span style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:x-small">PhD Candidate</span><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font size="1">Department of Linguistics, </font><span style="font-size:x-small">University of Alberta</span></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font size="1">3-27 Assiniboia Hall</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><font size="1"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/arice" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/view/arice</a></font></div></div></div></div><div id="m_7609474339975931584m_221812164836572711DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br><table style="border-top:1px solid rgb(211,212,222)"><tbody><tr><td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px"></td><td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;color:rgb(65,66,78);font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px"><br></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="#m_7609474339975931584_m_221812164836572711_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div></div>
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