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Reflective 8
Morphology
There are too many things to memorize especially the definition of the morphemes. If we remember the definition or the key words, it is easy for us to understand and get the points and able to give the examples on the spot.
Now, we learnt about allomorphs and it was my fist lime heard of the word. It refers to a variant of a morpheme. It occurs due to the phonological and lexical conditioning. Phonological conditioning is of the surrounding sounds in the voiced and voiceless feature of the phoneme before the morpheme. Voiceless morpheme will produce voiceless allomorph and vice versa.
e.g. cats /kaets/ – voiceless (s)
dogs /dogz/ – voiced (z)
There are many examples of allomorphs such as /s/, /t/ and /d/. As for the lexical conditioning, it includes all the past tense. For examples:
“take” – “took”
“see” – “saw”
The other allomorph is the zero allomorphs which is without any addition or subtraction of its part although the meaning has change. For example “fish” (singular), “fish” (plural). Besides, zero allomorph also indicating masculine or feminine gender. For examples doctor, clerk etc.
Actually, it was very difficult for me because my knowledge of English vocabulary is quite limited. I must make more reading to improve myself. At the same time, I still blur about allomorph and I hope there is some time for us to discuss it again during the lecture.
Thank you.
