Explore the fundamentals of words, parts of speech, and morphology in multilingual natural language processing through this lecture by Alan Black. Delve into the concepts of word definition, morphology, and Universal Dependencies Treebank morphology annotations. Learn about morphological analysis techniques and their applications in various languages. Access accompanying slides and references for a deeper understanding of the topic. Gain insights into linguistic aspects such as orthography, prosody, semantics, and tag sets. Examine different types of morphology, including Arabic morphology, and discover morphology analyzers and competitions. Investigate finite state morphology, tokenization, and text normalization techniques essential for processing diverse languages.