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<p>In phonological analysis, parsing algorithms for FSAs have several important applications:</p>
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<h3 class="anchored" data-anchor-id="morphological-decomposition">1. Morphological Decomposition</h3>
<p>Parsing can identify the morphological structure of words by tracing the path through an FSA that represents morphological rules.</p>
<p>For example, parsing the word “unhappiness” through an appropriate FSA might yield a path that identifi