Defective distribution

Defective distribution is the situation where a phoneme in a certain language does not occur in all contexts.

Examples

In German, the phoneme /h/ only occurs at the beginning and in the middle of a word, but not at the end.

In Italian, the phoneme /z/ does not occur morpheme- or word–initially.

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References


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