{"id":1605,"date":"2011-08-24T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T09:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1605"},"modified":"2011-10-04T13:06:48","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:06:48","slug":"distribution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1605","title":{"rendered":":Distribution:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The total set of the environments in which a sound can occur in a given language. Two sounds may have identical environments and are said to be in <strong>parallel distribution<\/strong>, or have partially similar distributions (<strong>overlapping<\/strong> distribution). If, however, two sounds may never occur in similar environments they are said to be in <strong>complementary distribution<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a short list of pairs of sounds in complementary distribution in various languages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General British English: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>l<\/strong><\/span> ~ <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u026b<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Japanese: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u0278<\/strong><\/span> ~ <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>h<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li>Castilian Spanish: <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>d<\/strong><\/span> ~ <span style=\"color: navy;\"><strong>\u00f0<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The total set of the environments in which a sound can occur in a given language. Two sounds may have identical environments and are said to be in parallel distribution, or have partially similar distributions (overlapping distribution). If, however, two &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1605\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3667,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605\/revisions\/3667"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}