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In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant phonetic form of a morpheme, or, a unit of meaning that varies in sound and spelling without changing the meaning.[1] The term allomorph describes the realization of phonological variations for a specific morpheme.[1] The different allomorphs that a morpheme can become are governed by morphophonemic rules. These phonological rules determine what phonetic form, or specific pronunciation, a morpheme will take based on the phonological or morphological context in which they appear.[2]
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In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant phonetic form of a morpheme, or, a unit of meaning that varies in sound and spelling without changing the meaning...
In morpheme-based morphology, the term null allomorph or zero allomorph is sometimes used to refer to some kind of null morpheme for which there are also...
in astronomy's Hertzsprung–Russell diagram 0 allomorph, also null allomorph, a special kind of allomorph in morphology which has the form of a null morpheme...
/bə-/ prefix (with a ber- [bər-] allomorph before vowel-initial roots) The te- /tə-/ prefix (with a ter- [tər-] allomorph before vowel-initial roots) The...
ʿnd, ḥt, ʿkdy a subjunctive in -a t-demonstratives leveling of the -at allomorph of the feminine ending ʾn complementizer and subordinator the use of f-...
ability to be done"). The plural morpheme for regular nouns (-s) has three allomorphs: it is pronounced /s/ (e.g., in cats /kæts/), /ɪz, əz/ (e.g., in dishes...
that has the cubic crystal shape of galena. A paramorph (also called allomorph) is a mineral changed on the molecular level only. It has the same chemical...
of +, −, or ⎓ for direct current. The tilde may indicate alternating allomorphs or morphological alternation, as in //ˈniː~ɛl+t// for kneel~knelt (the...
enclitics have allomorphs with apocopated final vowels (e.g. /‑še/ ~ /-š/) suggests that they were, on the contrary, unstressed when these allomorphs arose. Sumerian...
between р- and т-, the allomorphs beginning in т- are used after stems ending in the dental sonorants -р, -л and -н. The allomorphs beginning in р- occur...
the prefix allo- (other, different), such as allophone, allograph, and allomorph. The first emic unit to be considered, in the late 19th century, was the...
morphophoneme within a morpheme can be expressed in different ways in different allomorphs of that morpheme (according to morphophonological rules). For example...
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takes the vowel harmonic allomorph -앗 -as after verb stems whose (final) vowel is yang: In certain cases, suffix allomorphs do not match the harmonic...
in word-initial and intervocalic positions usually becomes a "palatal allomorph", and is barely pronounced. No native Venetic words seem to have survived...
ʿnd, ḥt, ʿkdy a subjunctive in -a t-demonstratives leveling of the -at allomorph of the feminine ending the use of f- to introduce modal clauses independent...
this alternation, but later forms of Classical Arabic levelled the /a/ allomorph: Islam portal Arabic Modern Standard Arabic Varieties of Arabic Ancient...
some declensions and is increasingly unproductive in colloquial use. Allomorph after vowels Like many Northeast Caucasian languages, Ingush uses a vigesimal...
The Portuguese personal pronouns and possessives display a higher degree of inflection than other parts of speech. Personal pronouns have distinct forms...
example, lata (meaning ‘kick’) adds the allomorph -it to become lat-it-o (meaning ‘kick back’). The allomorphs -t, -it or -ut are added to a verb to make...
indicate possession or the means by which something is accomplished. The allomorph ni is used after words ending in a consonant other than /n/, whereas i...
with the subject). Another allomorph, -ŝqa-, occurs before the ending -yki for 1st person acting on 2nd person. A third allomorph, -ŝun, is used in the first...
suffixes mark which speech level. Several formal-level markers have an allomorph beginning with su- after consonants, reflecting their origin as a compound...
alternate, or replace one another in different forms of the same morpheme (allomorphs), as well as, for example, syllable structure, stress, feature geometry...
assimilation, both progressive and regressive. All suffixes possess numerous allomorphs. For suffixes which begin with a consonant, the surface form of the consonant...
-tom (spelt -twm), or possibly -tum; in Manichaean, they also have the allomorphs -dar and -dom after voiced consonants. For example, abēzag (ʾp̄yck') 'pure'...
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