distributional analysis is used to fix and study the units of language in
relation to their contextual environments, i. e. adjoining elements in the text. In the
distributional analysis at the morphemic level, phonemic distribution of
morphemes and morphemic distribution of morphemes are discriminated. The
study is conducted in two stages. At the first stage, the analyzed text is divided into
recurrent segments consisting of phonemes. These segments are called “
morphs ”.
At the second stage, the environmental features of the morphs are established and
the corresponding identifications are effected.
Three main types of distribution are discriminated: contrastive, non-
contrastive and complementary. Contrastive and non-contrastive distribution
concern identical environments of different morphs. The morphs are said to be in
