Wk8a mOrPhOlOgY allomorphy

Question 1

What is Allomorphy?

Answer 1

Allomorphy is the phenomenon that a single morpheme has different realizations

Question 2

The plural morpheme -s in English is pronounced in three

different ways:

Answer 2

– [s]
– [z]
– [əz]

Question 3

How do you make plural words that end in [s z ʃ ʒ tʃ dʒ]….what sound do you add?

Answer 3

[əz] is used after sibilant consonants

Question 4

How do you make plural words that end in voiceless, non-sibilant consonants– [p t k f θ], what sound do you add?

Answer 4

[s]

Question 5

what sound do you add after after voiced, non-sibilant consonants and vowels
– [m n ŋ b d g v ð l r]
– [ɑː ɔː uː ə iː eɪ aɪ ɔɪ aʊ əʊ ɪə]
… or elsewhere to make plurals?

Answer 5

[z]

Question 6

[s], [z], [əz] are ______ of the plural morpheme

Answer 6

allomorphs

Question 7

What is complementary distribution?

Answer 7

The mutually exclusive relationship between two phonetically similar segments. It exists when one segment occurs in an environment where the other segment never occurs.

Question 8

What are phonological allomorphs?

Answer 8

Different pronunciation of the same morpheme

Question 9

Not all allomorphs are phonologically similar, what’s this called?

Answer 9

suppletive allomorphs

Question 10

Give examples of suppletive allomorphs

Answer 10

go- went……good- better

Question 11

Give examples of weak suppletive allomorphs

Answer 11

buy- bought…..tell- told

Question 12

What are weak suppletive allomorphs?

Answer 12

Allomorphs exhibit some
similarity, but this cannot be
described by phonological rules

Question 13

When allomorphs exhibit no similarity

at all, it’s called..?

Answer 13

Strong suppletive

allomorphy

Question 14

New word forms can belong to the same lexeme as the original root (_________)

Answer 14

(inflectional)

Question 15

New word forms can result in new lexemes (_______)

Answer 15

(derivational)

Question 16

The addition of prefixes, suffixes, infixes and circumfixes to a
root.

Answer 16

Affixation

Question 17

morphemes are strung together in a linear

fashion

Answer 17

concatenative

Question 18

roots are modified without stringing

morphemes together

Answer 18

non-concatenative

Question 19

Each affix has its own ______ _______:
– -able attaches to verbal roots to derive adjectives
read ⟶ read-able, suit ⟶ suitable, window ⟶ *windowable,
clever ⟶ *cleverable

Answer 19

combinatory potential

Question 20

________ is when a root or part of a root is copied and attached to the root itself

Answer 20

reduplication

Question 21

____ ________ is change in the pronunciation of part of a root with or without the
addition of affixes

Answer 21

Base modification eg. woman- women

Question 22

______ is when new lexemes are derived without any modification of the root.

Answer 22

Conversion eg. water- to water, guess- a guess, rich- the rich