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Edit: I stand corrected. See below. > Chinese is bereft of allomorphs: each morpheme in Chinese has only one pronunciation This is untrue (edit: actually, it

by KMag 6y ago

Edit: I stand corrected. See below. > Chinese is bereft of allomorphs: each morpheme in Chinese has only one pronunciation This is untrue (edit: actually, it still appears true). For instance, https://www.fluentinmandarin.com/content/chinese-characters-multiple-pronunciations/ https://www.fluentinmandarin.com/content/chinese-characters-... "会 huì or kuài – Again, completely different meanings."

Blikkentrekker 6y ago
These are not allomorphs; these are the minor exceptions where one grapheme can refer to two different morphemes. — in each of those examples, the meaning changes with a different pronunciation. Allomorphs do not change meaning, and typically occur in complementary distribution. A good example would be the English words “a” and “an” being allomorphs, “a” can only occur where “an” can not, and vice versā, and both have the exact same meaning and function.