see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, spoken or signed...

to "near minimal pairs" to show that speakers of the language perceive two sounds as significantly different even if no exact minimal pair exists in...

quality. The words beau /bo/ "beautiful" and bon /bɔ̃/ "good" are a minimal pair that contrasts primarily the vowel nasalization even though the /ɔ̃/...

/ð/ are distinct phonemes, not merely allophones, as demonstrated by minimal pairs such as thigh:thy, ether:either, teeth:teethe. They are distinguished...

found in /æ/ raising in some varieties of American English. A common minimal pair for modern RP speakers is band /bæːnd/ and banned /bænd/. Australian...

many minimal pairs between the voiced and voiceless plosives, b d g and p t k; for example, pagi "pay" vs. paki "pack", baro "bar" vs. paro "pair", teko...

another in that context. A contrastive distribution is demonstrated with a minimal pair. Contrastive distribution is distinct from complementary distribution...

disappear. Vowels from these series can form minimal pairs with the close series, as exemplified by the minimal pair tüür /tʏːr/ 'dry' vs. tüür /tyːr/ 'expensive'...

(along with bot and bought, pond and pawned, etc.) is an example of a minimal pair that is lost as a result of this sound change. The phonemes involved...

the branches of a hyperbola. The pairs on this hyperbola are minimal, because it is not possible for a different pair that belongs to S {\displaystyle...

speakers may also exhibit other near-minimal pairs like abyecto 'abject' vs. abierto 'opened'. One potential minimal pair (depending on dialect) is ya visto...

anticipated contemporary post-minimal art practices, which extend or reflect on minimalism's original objectives. Minimalism's key objectives were to strip...

/ʊ/. Because of the inconsistency of the split, put and putt became a minimal pair that were distinguished as /pʊt/ and /pʌt/. The first clear description...

limited usefulness of minimal pairs to distinguish phonemes. /h/ and /ŋ/ are separate phonemes in English, even though no minimal pair for them exists due...

spoken exactly the same except for length of one segment are considered a minimal pair. The term was coined by the British phonetician Daniel Jones to avoid...

example, the following word pairs sound the same when pronounced by speakers of dialects with yeísmo, but they are minimal pairs in regions with the distinction:...

length are treated the same when ordering words. Therefore, for example, the pairs O/Ó and Ö/Ő are not distinguished in ordering, but Ö follows O. In cases...

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clothes'), which comprises two morphemes, are expected to constitute a minimal pair as hangar [ˈhæŋɡə] versus hanger [ˈhæŋə]; in actuality, their pronunciations...

of a pair of minimally different words, a so-called minimal pair. In English, for example, the words bat [bæt] and pat [pʰæt] form a minimal pair, in which...

If (x, y) = (18, −5) is the original pair of Bézout coefficients, then ⁠18/42/6⁠ ∈ [2, 3] yields the minimal pairs via k = 2, respectively k = 3; that...

16 initial-vowel letters, with each consonant taking 14 forms with vowel pairs), the orthographic features of the Devanagari script (for example, the same...

minimal pair, because the profanity can also be pronounced with little friction (though in some other dialects they further evolved to form a minimal...

sequence of /n/ followed by /i/ in a rising diphthong in Brazil, forming a minimal pair between sonha [ˈsoj̃ɐ] and Sônia [ˈsoniɐ ~ ˈsonʲɐ ~ ˈsoɲɐ]; menina, "girl"...

language minimal pairs along with the adult usages. Though the child may believe that the subtle differences in their use of the minimal pair can be perceived...

Dom is a Trans–New Guinea language of the Eastern Group of the Chimbu family, spoken in the Gumine and Sinasina Districts of Chimbu Province and in some...

indicative and counterfactual conditionals is the following English minimal pair: Indicative conditional: If Sally owns a donkey, then she rides it. Simple...

w/ correspond to the close vowels /i, y, u/. While there are a few minimal pairs (such as loua /lu.a/ 's/he rented' and loi /lwa/ 'law'), there are many...

a handful of minimal pairs, such as ant–aunt, caff–calf, cant–can't, have–halve, and staph-staff. There also are some near-minimal pairs, such as ample–sample...

consonant that can end a syllable, as illustrated by the following minimal or near-minimal pairs: after /l/ (italiano [itaˈljano] 'Italian' vs. y tal llano [italˈɟʝano]...