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free variation
noun Linguistics.
a relation between the members of a pair of phones, phonemes, morphs, or other linguistic entities such that either of the two may occur in the same position with no change in the meaning of the utterance: in the first syllable of “economics,” “e” and “ē” are in free variation.
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is always a great word to know.
So is generative phonology. Does it mean:
| a theory of phonology that uses a set of rules to derive phonetic representations from abstract underlying forms |
| a sentence in which another sentence is embedded: In 'The man who called is waiting,' 'The man is waiting' is a matrix sentence |
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