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allomorph
Variant form of a morpheme, which may depend for instance on the stem to which the morpheme is being attached.

Example:
E.g. the morpheme {plural} in English has the allomorphs /s/ in cats, /z/ in dogs, /əz/ in horses.

Topics: Building words, General linguistic terms