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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.