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ALLOMORPHE [1 record]

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Record 1 1992-01-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diachronic Linguistics and Etymology
DEF

A variant of a morpheme which occurs in certain definable environments.

CONT

When we attend to the pronunciation of forms, or represent them consistently in a phonemic transcription, we find a similar relation between the morpheme and its variant representations in allomorphes, as we found in considering phonemes and their allophones.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Linguistique diachronique et étymologie
DEF

Se dit de différentes formes qui représentent le même morphème réalisé dans des contextes différents.

CONT

Lorsque l'on donne le nom de morphème à l'unité significative minimale, on appelle allomorphes les variantes de ce morphème en fonction du contexte.

Spanish

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