complementary distribution
- complementary distribution
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a relation such that the members of a pair or set of phones,
morphs,
or other linguistic units have no environment in common,
as aspirated "
p"
and unaspirated "
p"
in English,
the first occurring only in positions where the second does not.
Also called complementation.
Cf.
free variation.
[1930-35]
* * *
Universalium.
2010.
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