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Revision 3 . . (edit) September 11, 2001 1:36 am by Kwaku [Typo]
Revision 1 . . September 6, 2001 4:33 am by (logged).230.132.xxx [Terse first entry.]
  
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A variant of a morpheme. The meaning remains the same.
A variant of a morpheme. The meaning remains the same.


Example

The English plural morpheme for nouns has three allomorphs:

* [z] day-s, pie-s, shampoo-s, piano-s, zebra-s
* [s] map-s, lot-s, birth-s
* [&z] ash-es, surprise-s, age-s, approach-es

(notation in SAMPA)

from: Iggy Roca and Wyn Johnson, a course in phonology, Blackwell, 1999; p. 621
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