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minimal pair en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

  1. A pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment, used to prove the validity of a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme.

Forms

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minimal pairs Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

near-minimal pair

Translations (34)

pt par mínimo (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · cy pâr minimol (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ja ミニマル・ペア (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · he זוג מינימלי (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · el ελάχιστο ζεύγος (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · nn minimalt par (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · th คู่เทียบเสียง (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · cmn 最小對立體 /最小对立体 (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · es par mínimo (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ca parell mínim (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ja 最小対 (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · fr paire minimale (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ro pereche minimală (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · no minimalt par (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · hu minimális pár (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · eo minimuma paro (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · is mágmarkspar (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ja 最小対立 (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · hu minimálpár (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · da minimalt par (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · nl minimaal paar (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ko 최소 대립쌍 (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ja 最小対語 (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · yue 最細對立體 /最细对立体 (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · fi minimipari (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · cs minimální pár (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · tl pares minimal (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · de Minimalpaar (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · sv minimalt ordpar (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ga péire íosmhéide (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · pl para minimalna (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · gv jees sloo (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · it coppia minima (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment) · ru минима́льная па́ра (pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment)