in one and the sam e position but it cannot distinguish the words.
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Two various sounds may be used in one and the same po
sition. In such cases one of the sounds represents the free allo
phone of the other. For example, the word phonetics may be
pronounced as /fonetiks/, /founetiks/ and /fanetiks/ where the
sounds h i, h i represent the free allophones o f the phoneme /ou/.
In reality each of them is an allophone o f the separate phoneme.
The distributional method is very important in phonological
analysis o f the sound structure. It is necessary to show also what
clusters of sounds the pattern of a language admits. The branch o f
phonology which studies the possible clusters o f sounds in words
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