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Allomorph Sometimes a morpheme may more than one phonological form known as allomorphs.

Allomorph is said to be phonologically conditioned, and lexically conditioned. -In Phonologically conditioned: each allomorph occurs in a predictable set of environments, e.g., the plural morpheme in English, usually written as '-s', has at least three allomorphs: /-z/ , /-s/ , /-iz /. /-z/ after most voiced phonemes e.g dogs /-s/ after voiceless phonemes e.g cats /-iz/ after sibilants e.g dishes S

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