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Name/ NPM : Desi Tresna Ekawati/ 08211210063
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Allomorph

Allomorphs is a variant form of a morpheme, occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound (phonologically) without changing meaning. The examples include the past tense and the plural morphemes. A past tense morpheme is -ed. It occurs in several allomorphs when following an alveolar stop: as /əd/ or /ɪd/ in verbs whose stem ends with the alveolar 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/
. The plural morpheme in English, usually written as ‘-s’, has at least three allomorphs: [-s] as in books /buks/ occurs after voiceless stop, [-z] as in pencils /pensilz/ occurs after vowel, voiced stops, laterals and nasals and [-iz] as in glasses /gla:siz/ occurs after fricatives ad affricatives. Other examples of allomorphs of the English plural morpheme such as, (man/men, mouse/mice, sheep/sheep).
Morph is the actual forms used to realize morphemes. Example: cat consist of one morph, realizing a lexical morpheme. The form cats consist of two morphs, realizing a lexical morpheme and an inflectional morpheme (plural).
Allophone is a phonetic variant of a phoneme in a particular language.
Suffixes in English:
Inflectional Suffixes Derivational Suffixes
-s: creates plural nouns, as in "She owns two dogs."
-s: creates possessive nouns, as in "I found my dog's leash."
-s: creates third-person singular form of verbs, as in "He walks."
-ed: creates past tense of verbs, as in "He walked."
-en: creates past-participle verbs, as in "I've given her a chance."
-ing: creates present-participle verbs, as in "I am running."
-er: creates comparative adjectives and adverbs, as in "She's smarter than I."
-est: creates superlative adjectives and adverbs, as in "She's the smartest of the bunch."
Noun Suffixes Verb
Suffixes Adjective Suffixes Adverb
Suffixes
-ant
-er
-hood
-ment
-ness
-tion
(and others) -ate
-en
-ize
(and others) -able
-al
-ful
-y
-ous
(and others) -ly
-ward
-wise
Prefixes in English:
Prefix Prefix+ word Original Category
Dis Disagree /v/ Agree /v/ inflectional
im Impossible /adj/ Possible /adj/ inflectional
In Indirect /adj/ Direct /adj/ inflectional
inter International /n/ National /n/ inflectional
Ir Irregular /adj/ Regular /adj/ inflectional
mis Misunderstand /v/ Understand /v/ inflectional
re Rejoin /v/ Join /v/ inflectional
un Unhappy /adj/ Happy /adj/ Inflectional
mini Minibus /n/ Bus /n/ inflectional


Sources:
www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAnAllomorph.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allomorph
www.affixes.html
Kiat Boey, Lim. 1975. An Introduction To Linguistics for the Language Teacher. Singapore University Press
Yule, George. 1996. The Study of Language. Cambridge University press.