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Allophone
Alternation
Basic Allophone
Complementary Distribution
Conditioning Environment
Contrastive
Contrastive Distribution
Distribution
Free Variation
Implicational Law
Minimal Pair
Natural Class
Near Minimal Pair
Noncontrastive
Overlapping Distribution
Phoneme
Phonetic Environment
Phonological Rule
Phonotactic Constraints
Restricted Allophone
Sound Substitution
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Definition: Sounds in complementary distribution are considered to be allophones of the same phoneme.
Source: Language Files, eleventh edition, edited by Vedrana Mihalicek and Christin Wilson