ordkomplexitet
Ordkomplexitet, or word complexity, is a concept used in linguistics to describe how challenging a word is for speakers, learners, and processing systems. It captures the combined effect of morphology, phonology, spelling, and meaning, rather than any single property.
Morphology plays a central role, as the number of morphemes, inflectional and derivational affixes, and irregular
Common measures used in research and pedagogy include the number of morphemes, syllables, and inflectional forms;
Applications of ordkomplexitet span language education, lexicography, natural language processing and speech recognition, readability evaluation, and
Cross-language variation is substantial. Agglutinative languages such as Finnish and Turkish can produce long, morphologically rich
Limitations include its dependence on the learner, task, and context; there is no universal standard. Word complexity