Allormoph

Allomorph

Allomorph is variety of morpheme. Part of morpheme, it’s abour sound / phonological  and symbol but it does not change the meaning.

• Article:  A : an chair, a book

                      AN : an umbrella, an apple

• Past tense  : -ed : parted, visited

                           -t: picked

                           -d: wedge

• S plural     : /s/  = cats

                            /z/  = dogz

                           /ez/  = boxes

Phonological  

Phonological the rature of predicting sound.

Example : picked, wedged

Morphological

Morphological associated with spesific word

Example : Oxen, sheep-sheep/ sheep ϕ

Additive Allomorph

•  Past tense =  -t  : Laughed  (-d pt / -d)

                                -d : played (-d pt/-t)

                               -ed: wanted (-d pt/ -ed)

• S  plural  =  /-s/, /-z/, /-ez/

Zero Allomorph

• Past tense =     I put my bag yesterday (-d pt/ ϕ/)

• Plural        =     I have two sheep  (-s pl/ ϕ/)

Replacive Allomorph:

• Partial

Past tense= Drink            Drank              Drunk

                     /i/                  /æ/                  /ʌ/

                                    (-D pt / i > / æ /)

                                    (-D pt / i> / ʌ /)

Plural       = Tooth           teeth

                       (-S pl/ ....> /i/)

• Totaly changed

Past tense        = eat                ate                   eaten

                                    (-D pt/ It > /et/)

                                    (-D pp/ It > /i:tn/)

Plural               = Mouse          Mice

                         (-S pl / maʊs > maIs)

Homophones

            You are acquainted with many pairs, trios, and even foursomes of word in English which sound alike but differ in meaning : heir, air, pare, pair, pear, such words are called homophones. In morphology it must be remembered that words like these are different morphemes.

Example :  Did you like the meet ? /mit/ (track meet)

                  Did you like the meat  ? /mit/ (roast beef)

The same is true of bound forms. Compare :

• Verbal inflectional suffix                              : it feels /-z/ good
• Noun plural inflectional suffix                     : those frogs/-z/
• Noun possessive inflectional suffix              : jhon’s /-z/ book

These three homophous /-z/ are three different morpheme