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LECTURE 11 What is an allomorph? An allomorph is a linguistics term for a variant form of a morpheme. The concept occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound (phonologically) without changing meaning. It is used in linguistics to explain the comprehension of variations in sound for a specific morpheme. English has several morphemes that vary in sound but not in meaning. Examples include the past tense and the plural morphemes. For example, in English, a past tense morpheme is -ed. It occurs in several allomorphs depending on its phonological environment, assimilating voicing of the previous segment or inserting the alveolar a schwa when following an alveolar stop: as /əd/ or /ɪd/ in verbs whose stem ends with stops /t/ or /d/, such as 'hunted' /hʌntəd/ or 'banded' /bændəd/ as /t/ in verbs whose stem ends with voiceless phonemes other than /t/, such as 'fished' /fɪʃt/ as /d/ in verbs whose stem ends voiced phonemes other than /d/, such as 'buzzed' /bʌzd/ These three phonemic forms of –Dpt are not interchangeable. The occurrence of one or another of them depends on its phonological environment. This pattern of occurrence is called complementary distribution, abbreviated CD. An allomorph is an alternative manifestation of a morpheme (a set of meaningful linguistic units). Allomorphs vary in shape or pronunciation according to their conditions of use, but not as to meaning. Examples Here are some examples of allomorphs. In English, the negative prefix in has several allomorphs: In-capable Il-logical Im-probable Ir-reverent Replacive allomorph. It is a linguistic element that replaces or substitutes for something else. The term is particularly label replacive morph or replacive morpheme to forms such described in used enable in irregular as men from man and sang or sung from sing to morphemic terms, despite falling the outside be the straightforward rules for forming noun plurals or past verb forms by the addition of inflections.
