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)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 互補分佈 / 互补分布 (hùbǔ fēnbù)

• Finnish: täydennysjakauma
• French: distribution complémentaire f
• Hungarian: kiegészítő eloszlás
• Italian: distribuzione complementare f
• Japanese: 相補分布 (そうほぶんぷ, sōho bunpu)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: нөхөх байр (nöxöx bair)

  Mongolian script: ᠨᠥᠬᠥᠬᠦ
  ᠪᠠᠶᠢᠷᠢ (nökökü bayiri)

• Polish: dystrybucja komplementarna f
• Portuguese: distribuição complementar f
• Russian: дополни́тельная дистрибу́ция (dopolnítelʹnaja distribúcija), дополни́тельное распределе́ние (dopolnítelʹnoje raspredelénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: komplementarna distribucija, комплементарна дистрибуција
• Spanish: distribución complementaria f

See also

• allophone