问二叉搜索树中的插入错误

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void BST::insert(string word)
{
   insert(buildWord(word),root);
}
  //Above is the gateway insertion function that calls the function below
  //in order to build the Node, then passes the Node into the insert function
  //below that

Node* BST::buildWord(string word)
{
   Node* newWord = new Node;
   newWord->left = NULL;
   newWord->right = NULL;
   newWord->word = normalizeString(word);

   return newWord;
}
   //The normalizeString() returns a lowercase string, no problems there

void BST::insert(Node* newWord,Node* wordPntr)
{
  if(wordPntr == NULL)
  {
  cout << "wordPntr is NULL" << endl;
  wordPntr = newWord;
  cout << wordPntr->word << endl;
  }
  else if(newWord->word.compare(wordPntr->word) < 0)
  {
     cout << "word alphabetized before" << endl;
     insert(newWord,wordPntr->left);
  }
  else if(newWord->word.compare(wordPntr->word) > 0)
  {
     cout << "word alphabetized after" << endl;
     insert(newWord, wordPntr->right);
  }
  else
  {
     delete newWord;
  }
}