SEPTEMBER

2020
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ALLOMORPHS
1/ Find the similar morpheme in each of the groups
of words below:
a. child : {child} – childen : {child} + {-S1} => {child}
b. kiss/es, love/s, give/s: => {-S3}
c. repeat, repetitive
d. amazed, excited, depressed
e. have, had
f. wide, width
g. able, ability
h. atom, atomic
i. wolf, wolves => {wolf}
k. drink, drunk
l. man, men => {man}
m. oxen, brethren, children => {-S}
n. houses, dreams, cats => {-S1}
o. famous, infamous => {fame} Oxen, children, deer, men,
wolves, calves, mouths, hurt,
p. offend, offensive
drunk, broken, went, washes,
2/ EXERCISE 2: GIVE THE MORPHEMIC STRUCTURE OF switches, saw, began, bit,
EACH OF THE FOLLOWING WORDS. IDENTIFY THE gave
ALLOMORPH OF THE INFLECTIONAL SUFFIX IN EACH
WORD:
 1. Oxen = {Ox} + {-S1}

2. Children = {child} + {-S1}

3. Deer = { Deer } + {-S1}

4. Men = { man } + {-S1}

5. Wolves = { Wolf } + {-S1}

6. Calves = { calf } + {-S1}

7. Mouths = { mouth } + {-S1}

Cùng 1 morpheme {-S1} nhưng có các morph khác nhau:

1. {-S1} / ən/ (-n) 4. {-S1} – /æ -> e/

2. /-ən/ 5. {-S1} [{wolf – wolves}/ /wʊlf/, /wʊlvz/]

5. {-S1} /z/, CATS /s/

MORPHEME - MORPH:
3. / 0 /

=> {-S1} : / ən/ (-n), /æ -> e/, /z/, /s/, /-iz/ / 0 /