NOUN
- (linguistics) a distribution of related speech sounds or forms in such a way that they only appear in different contexts
How To Use complementary distribution In A Sentence
- in complementary distribution
- It is easy to design a binding theory that predicts non-complementary distribution in specific circumstances.
- In the Anatomy, ideas, topoi, modes, and kinds fell into co-ordinated, complementary distributions, or lattice-work of dialectical oppositions and counterparts.
- In more prestigious varieties of Spanish, the clitic and object noun phrase are in complementary distribution (La vi or Vi a la mujer).
