complementary distribution

English

Noun

complementary distribution (plural complementary distributions)

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

Antonyms

• contrastive distribution
• free variation

Translations

distribution of phones

• Armenian: լրացուցիչ բաշխում (hy) (lracʻucʻičʻ bašxum)
• Finnish: täydennysjakauma
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: дополни́тельная дистрибу́ция (dopolnítelʹnaja distribúcija), дополни́тельное распределе́ние (dopolnítelʹnoje raspredelénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: komplementarna distribucija, комплементарна дистрибуција

See also

• allophone