B. Data Analysis
1. Article 1: MY GADGET: Arifin Putra looks to high performance.
1 WiFi
a. Morpheme
The word WiFi consists of one morpheme. WiFi is a free morpheme because it can stand alone as a word. Based on the types of
gadgets when necessary. Derivation
Communication 6
MY GADGET: Nonita Respati: Capturing great and
inspiring things. Eponym
WhatsApp
Inflection Gadgets
7 Google redesigns Android to
power smart watches. Clipping
Tech App
Eponym Google
8 A heads-
on look at Sony‘s virtual reality goggles.
Compounding Headphone
Initialism 3D
VR 9
Facebook launches lab to bring internet everywhere.
Eponym Facebook
Initialism 3G
morpheme, WiFi can be called as a free root morpheme because it happens as a free form with identifiable word class properties.
b. Word Formation
WiFi can be classified as an eponym word formation. Eponym is a new word that is formed from a name. There are so many eponym
comes from a brand name, individual name, company name and place name. Eponym is like turning a proper noun into a common
noun. WiFi belongs to eponym on an organization‘s name WiFi Alliance. WiFi is a trademark of WiFi Alliance. It is a word that has
been use since most of people use WiFi to connect the device such as Smartphone and laptop to the internet.
c. Morphophonological Processes
WiFi has no special change in omitting or adding any letters to create the word. WiFi is a completely new word which is taken
from an organization‘s name. It does not use any pre-existing words. It is taken from the developer name WiFi Alliance.
d. Dictionary
WiFi is listed in Oxford Learner‘s Dictionaries Online in the technology topic related to computer hardware. It is also listed in
Cambridge Dictionaries Online and Merriam-Webster Dictionaries Online. But, WiFi is not listed in Longman Dictionary of
Contemporary English Online.
Thus, WiFi has passed the four processes of word formation which use the structural morphology processes of identifying the word. WiFi
has one morpheme as a free morpheme. WiFi has been classified as an eponym word formation and do not have any special processes in
morphophonological because it is completely a scratch. WiFi is also listed in Oxford Learner‘s Dictionaries Online, Cambridge Dictionaries
Online and Merriam-Webster Dictionaries Online. Then, WiFi is structurally perfect as a word.
2 RAM
a. Morpheme
RAM is short from Random Access Memory. RAM is only has one
morpheme which is a free morpheme. It can stand alone as a word and has word class property that can be identified. But, if we also
identify Random Access Memory, it has three free morphemes. They can stand independently as a word with identifiable word class
properties. b.
Word Formation RAM
is a kind of abbreviation. But, abbreviation is grouped into two parts, abbreviation non-initial called acronym, and abbreviation by
taking initial named initialism. RAM is belong to acronym because it takes the first sound from each of several words Random Access
Memory and makes a new word from those initial sounds R, A, and
M, and resulting initials RAM that pronounced like any other word.