Suppletion and morphophonemics : English noun plurals
English noun plurals: Morphophonemics and stem suppletion Morphophonemics and stem suppletion Morphophonemics refers to allomorphy which results from regular phonological rules; STEM SUPLETION refers to irregular inflection. The data Most nouns form their plural by adding suffix –(e)s, which has three spelling forms: /-z/, /-s/, and /-iz/. (1) a. /boI-z/ boy-s /tri:-z/ tree-s /kaʊ-z/ cow-s…