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    The document discusses morphs and allomorphs. [1] A morph is the phonetic realization of a morpheme and can be lexical or grammatical. [2] An allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme that does not change the meaning. There are three types of allomorphs: phonologically conditioned based on pronunciation, morphologically conditioned based on particular morphemes, and lexically conditioned which are unpredictable. [3] Allomorphs occur at the morpheme level and can have different sounds, pronunciations, or spellings depending on their conditioning environment.

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    The document discusses morphs and allomorphs. [1] A morph is the phonetic realization of a morpheme and can be lexical or grammatical. [2] An allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme that does not change the meaning. There are three types of allomorphs: phonologically conditioned based on pronunciation, morphologically conditioned based on particular morphemes, and lexically conditioned which are unpredictable. [3] Allomorphs occur at the morpheme level and can have different sounds, pronunciations, or spellings depending on their conditioning environment.

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    MORPH AND ALLOMORPH

    A. Morph

    Morph is the phonetic realization of a morpheme which study the unit of form, sounds
    and phonetic symbol. The morphs can be devided into two important classes, lexical and
    grammatical.

    1. Lexical morph is the morph that denote directly objects actions, qualities and other
    pieces of real word (ex : table, dog, walk, etc.)
    2. Grammatical morph is the morph that has been modifiying the meaning of the lexical
    morphs by adding a certain element to them. (ex : un-, -able, re-, -d, in-, -ent, -ly, -al, -
    ize, -a-, -tion, anti-, dis-, -ment, -ari-, -an, -ism)

    Example :

    The word/morpheme disbelieve has a phonetic symbol /dIsbI’li:v/

    Morph

    Dis /dIs/

    Believe /bI’li:v/

    So, every phonetic symbol of morpheme is called morph.

    B. Allomorph

    Allomorph is variant form of morpheme about the sounds and phonetic symbols but it
    doesn’t change the meaning. There are three types of allomorph, phonologically,
    morphologically and lexically conditioned allomorph.

    1. Phonologically conditioned allomorph

    The choice of allomorph is predictable on the basis of the pronounciation

     Allomorph of the indefinite article : an (before vowels, ex : an elephant) and a (before


    consonant, ex : a dog) both of them have meaning one,single.
     Allomorphs of the regular past tense morpheme

    1. /id/ after d,t : hated


    2. /t/ after all other voiceless sounds : picked
    3. /d/ after all other voiced sounds : wedged
    4. /im/ before bilabial sounds : impossible
    5. /il/ before consonant /l/ : illegal
    6. /in/ elsewhere : independent

     Some allomorph of the negative prefix in-


    2. Morphologically conditioned allomorph

    The choice of allomorph is determined by particular morphemes, not just by their


    pronounciation, ex : the morpheme –sume in changes to –sumpt- in (consume =
    consumption)

    3. Lexically conditioned allomorph

    The choice of allomorph is unpredictable, thus memorized on a word by word basis, ex : ox –


    plural- oxen, sheep-plural- sheep.

    There are examples of allomorph.

    Example :

    1. Three different allomorphs

    Cats /s/

    Dogs/z/

    Boxes/iz/

    2. One allomoprh

    Disagreement /dis/

    Discount /dis/

    Disbelieve /dis/

    3. Two different allomorphs

    Voiced /d/

    Walked /t/

    Stopped /t/

    Kicked /t/

    Note : allomorph occur at every morpheme, ex : agree (one morpheme, one allomorph)
    So, allomorph is variant form of a morpheme about the sounds and phonetic symbol
    but it doesn’t change the meaning. Allomorph has different in pronounciation and spelling
    according to their condition. It means that allomorph will have different sound,
    pronounciation or spelling in different condition.

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