Morphological analyser/Exercises

English plurals

Orthographic, not necessarily phonological

basic plurals

• book, name, computer, house, phone, bread, judge, toy, piano, proof, chief
• f→v: wife, life

-es plurals

• watch, box, waitress, tomato, dish, virus
• y→i: baby, fly, berry
• doubled letter: quiz,
• f→v: leaf, wolf, half, loaf
• x→c: appendix,

irregular plurals =

• -en: child, ox
• alternation: man, goose, mouse, tooth,
• null: deer, fish, sheep
• suppletive: person
• other: die
• is→es: thesis, analysis, crisis
• um→a: stratum, millenium
• us→i: syllabus, nucleus, alumnus
• a→ae: larva, alumna
• on→a: criterion, phenomenon