What does allomorph mean?
A variant of a morpheme that differs in form but has the same meaning or function. In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant of a morpheme that differs in form but has the same meaning or function.
Example
"The allomorphs of the English plural morpheme include -s, -es, and -en, which are used to form the plural of nouns such as cat, house, and child."
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