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

that differ in meaning through the contrast of a single phoneme form a minimal pair. If, in another language, any two sequences differing only by pronunciation...

oral vowels and nasalized vowels phonemically. Linguists make use of minimal pairs to decide whether or not the nasality is of linguistic importance. In...

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...

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

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]...

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...

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

each other, as is demonstrated by the presence of a small number of minimal pairs: thigh:thy, ether:either, teeth:teethe. Thus they are distinct phonemes...

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"...

This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For...

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

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...

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'...

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism is an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, most strongly with American visual...

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:...

(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...

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...

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...

only by those sounds in an accent that maintains the distinction (a minimal pair) are homophonous in the accent with the merger. Some examples from English...

counterfactual conditionals can be illustrated by the following English minimal pair: Indicative conditional: If Sally owns a donkey, then she rides it. Simple...

(2007). The square–nurse merger in Scouse renders minimal pairs such as fair-fur, stare-stir and pair-purr homophonous as /feː/, /steː/ and /peː/. The...

of two different words. Contrastive distribution Distributionalism Free variation Minimal pair Phoneme An Introduction to Language by Victoria Fromkin...

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...

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

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 is...

spoken exactly the same except for length of one segment are considered a minimal pair. The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) denotes length by doubling...

/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...

letters ⟨и⟩ and ⟨ы⟩. Rare instances of word-initial [ɨ], including the minimal pair и́кать 'to produce the sound и' and ы́кать 'to produce the sound ы',...