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Minimal pairs: In linguistics, minimal pairs are pairs of words that vary by only one phoneme, such as 'cat' and 'bat', used to demonstrate that two sounds are distinct
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Minimal pairs are words different by a single sound.
The following are examples of minimal pairs.
Minimal pairs were common in all languages.
Practice with minimal pairs.
Minimal pairs are pairs of words that differ in only one sound.
These are called minimal pairs.
I have minimal pairs of shoes.
I think the trick is to build up to this with minimal pairs.
So when we look at minimal pairs in spoken languages we see that.
The phoneme discrimination test with figures assesses the phonemic discrimination capacity through minimal pairs.
There are no minimal pairs.
Examples of minimal pairs and near minimal pairs are given in the table below.
The Extended Euclidean algorithm always produces one of these two minimal pairs.
This process can result in minimal pairs involving sounds that are otherwise allophones.
Minimal pairs are signs which differ in meaning when only one phonological parameter varies.

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They are not phonemes, because no minimal pairs can be established.
Initially, the minimal pairs are worked by the imitation of the therapist production.
There are a few words that have them, but there are no minimal pairs.
There are no known lexical minimal pairs for or grammatical use of stress / tone.
Minimal pairs serve as tools to establish that two ( or more ) sounds are contrastive.
A reasonably complete list of uncontroversial so-called minimal pairs can be seen below.
Although minimal pairs contrasting stress are rare, they do exist in the language.
As in spoken languages, sign languages have minimal pairs which differ in only one phoneme.
Chapter 4 provides a phonemic inventory of tuyuka consonants and vowels, with the illustrations of minimal pairs.
The forms that surface as minimal pairs when prefixed with [ an ] are highlighted in gray.
In Lewis Gaelic, it is difficult to find minimal pairs.
They state that minimal pairs are easily obtainable only for the vowel / a /.
Thus, the language included distinct sounds and minimal pairs that were written the same.
Then, first, the items of demonstration were presented and, after, the analyzed minimal pairs.
Tones have a low functional load, but minimal pairs exist, dü ' give birth ' versus dû ' hole.
Focus on listening for multiple elements, plurals, pronouns, or minimal pairs.

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