English Explanatory Dictionary

complementary distribution

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The distribution of phones in their respective phonetic environments such that one never appears in the same phonetic context as the other.

Word forms

complementary distribution complementary distributions

Antonyms

contrastive distribution free variation

Related words

allophone
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