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Article Critque: Blend Words

The reference are of excellent quality. However, some of the links are not function and they load an error page. Most of the facts can be found in the links so there is no issue with finding information on a particular fact. All the information in the article is relevant. What can be helpful is including more examples of where blend words would be used and be more direct such as in advertising. Showing blend words in different languages is great but it does not grasp the main idea of blend words since each language has their own rules. This article has no bias and remain relatively neutral. There are no signs of conflicting ideas and concepts. Most of the information in this article comes from online textbooks of which appear to remain neutral as well. None of the viewpoints are over or underrepresented. They all explain the main idea of what blend words are and how they are formed. All the links work with the few exceptions in the reference section. There are a few close paraphrases but no part of the article is plagiarized. All of the paraphrasing is done through original notes. All of the information is up-to-date. The article could use some more background information on why blend words are created such as linking the blend words to linguistic creativity and productivity. What can also be added is what would cause speakers to use blended words that are unproductive. To improve the article, I would add more sentences about creativity and productivity. In the Morphology textbook by Rochelle Lieber, she mentions that productive lexemes formations are used to created new words without the speakers ever noticing they used them. Another piece that can be used is how productivity helps create blend words when they go through morphological processes to become lexicalized.