What is Morphonemics ? Explain the difference between morphemes and allomorphs with suitable examples.

What is Morphonemics ? Explain the difference between morphemes and allomorphs with suitable examples.

Morphonemics:

 Morphonemics is of or relating to a class of phonemes that belong to the same morpheme or to the relations among them and the conditions that determine their occurrences.

Difference between Morphemes and Allomorphs:

Morphology is the study of words and their structure. Morpheme is the smallest meaningful morphological unit in a language. Allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme. The main difference between morpheme and allomorph is that morpheme is concerned with the meaning and structure of a word whereas allomorph is concerned with the sound.

Difference on the basis of definition:

Morpheme:

 A morpheme is a minimal unit of meaning in a language. It can be defined as the smallest, meaningful, morphological unit in a language that cannot be further divided or analyzed. In linguistics, morphemes are classified into two categories. They are free morpheme and bound morpheme. A free morpheme is a word, that is, a free morpheme is a meaningful unit. Some examples of free morphemes include

hat, believe, cheap, talk, red, new, cow, deliver, legal, etc.

Note that all free morphemes are words, but not all words are morphemes.

Bound morphemes are the units that cannot stand alone. On their own, they have no meaning. It always has to be added to other morphemes to give a meaning. The underlined parts in the following words are bound morphemes.

Hats

Disbelieve

Cheaply

Talked

Reddish

Bound Morphemes can be further divided into two categories called derivational and inflectional morphemes. Derivational morpheme is a morpheme that is added to the (the base form) of the word to derive a new word................................................................................................................................

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