Defektive Verteilung

The distribution of a phoneme that does not occur in all contexts is referred to as a defective distribution in linguistics.

In many cases the occurrence of phonemes of a language within words is possible both at the beginning of the word (wortinitial), within a word (word) and at the word end (word end). If a phoneme does not occur in one of these contexts, one speaks of a defective distribution. Examples Edit source text

The phoneme / h / does not occur in German in the final position.

Evidence for the distribution of / h /: [haʊs] [gəhɔlfən] * [worth] The phoneme / z / is not morphemed or wordinitial in Italian. Edit source text

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