Morphemes, Morphs,

Allomorphs, and Syllables

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 What is Morphemes and Morphs?
Morpheme is an abstract enity that has no phonetic shape (i.e. Sounds).

Phonetic from of the morpheme Morph.

So, a morphemes is represented by a morph

Example : . Suffix -ing

. Suffix -er

Speaking and Speaker

Can we say that there is a one – to – one
relation between morpheme and morph?

Is one morpheme always realized by one

morph?
 Example of the relationship between
morpheme and morph
• Suffix –ing in speaking (Progressive marker) : Waiting, reading, sleeping, and so on, and so forth.

• Suffix –er in speaker ( agent marker ) : reader, writer, killer, etc.

So morpheme –ing and –er each has only one morph

 Yet, things become different when it
comes to certain affixes
For example, the regular plural suffix –s in words
boxes, cats, and birds

We can say that the plural morpheme is realized by three different morphs

When different morphs are surface representation of the same morpheme, we are talking
about a process of allomorphy
What is Allomorphs?

Allomorphs are usually defined as phonetic variants of a morphemes

which accure in different phonolocgical environtments.
Diagram Morpheme, Morph, Allomorph
 The difference between
morpheme and syllable
The basic difference between the two lies in the notion of meaning and/or
grammatical function.

● a morpheme is the smallest unit that has a meaning or a grammatical

function with which a complex word can be formed

● while a syllable is a meaningless unit of speech created to make

pronunciation of words easy.

In short, the number of syllables can be the same as or different from the number
of morphemes in a word.
The Following are some more examples
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