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Morphs and Allomorphs 韩佳彤 英语师范三班 20081115020053 Definition Morpheme:is the smallest unit of language in terms of the relationship betweteen expression and content,a unit that cannot be divided into further smaller units without destroying or drastically altering the meaning,whether it is lexical or grammtical. Morphs:We can regard it as the actual forms used to realize morphemes Definition Allomorphs:When we find a group of different motphs,all versions of one morpheme,we can describe them as allomorphs of that moepheme. Conclusion:Morphemes are abstract units.Morphs are the discrete units of morphemes which can realize it in the speech.And all the morphs of morpheme is allomorph. Morphs Single morphs:some morphemes are realized by the single morph,like bird,tree,want and so on. Also,other morphemes are realized by more than one morphs: (1)The morpheme of plurality{s}has a set of morphs in different sound context,eg：cats/s/,dogs/z/ /s/ after the sounds{t,p,k} /z/ afer the sounds{d,b,g,l} /iz/ after the sounds {s,z} Morphs (2)Verbs have different tenses,so the morpheme have a set of morphs.eg: {be},is ,am,are,was,were Examples {am} can be pronounced as /?m//m/ {am} is the morpheme,/?m/ and /m/ are the morphs of it.Also they are totally called allomorphs Examples {would} /wud/ /w?d/ /?d/ /d/ {would} is the morpheme /wud/ /w?d/ /?d/ /d/ ,the morphs They whole four is called the allomorph That is the end Thank you! * * *