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…