Abstract: Hybridization investigates the vocabulary of Gen Z learners in the digital era to describe and explain the usage of Filipino affixes and English free morpheme within one of the universities of CALABARZON. This paper collected 502 hybrid words and was analyze with morphology to show the patterns of combining the Filipino feature to the English word, afterwards, markedness theory was utilized to explain the meaning and grammatical change of each word collected from the Gen Z learners within their Facebook post, comments, captions, and messenger.
Flores, Anna Luisa L. (2026);
Vocabulary Hybridization among Gen Z learners in the Digital Era;
International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications (IJSRP)
16(6) (ISSN: 2250-3153),
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29322/IJSRP.16.06.2026.p17402