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 |