complementary allophone
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.43 in modern English
38
Scrabble Score
22
Letters
6
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "... complementary allophone from the underlying phoneme. In each pair, the unaspirated form has a more general distribution. The aspirated allophone occurs in a very specific set of circumstances: in initial position of a word or stressed[…]"
- "... complementary allophone of /i/, its occurrence being largely restricted to positions before /r, h, hw/. Similarly, the emergence of short 〈aú〉 /ɔ/ was primarily associated with PGmc. /u/ preceding the same three consonants. In Early[…]"
Inflected Forms
complementary allophones (plural)