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Hodï language (780 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

state whether vowel nasalization is phonemic, and does not provide a minimal pair for /o/ vs /u/. The mid central vowel is written ⟨ö⟩. Quatra (2008) maintains

Voiced retroflex approximant (504 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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

Zurich German (1,571 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

can form minimal pairs with the close series, as exemplified by the minimal pair tüür /tʏːr/ 'dry' vs. tüür /tyːr/ 'expensive'. The short /e/ and /ɛ/

Kerkrade dialect phonology (1,530 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

by gender, as in the minimal pair de val /də ˈval/ - d'r val /dər ˈvál/ Between the plural and singular, as in the minimal pair de peëd /də ˈpeət/ - 't

Hungarian alphabet (1,706 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

English) Same as /o/ except longer. It is important to pay attention to. (Minimal pair to kor = 'age' and kór = 'disease') Ö ö ö /ø/ learnt, earl, fern (Corresponds

Ghayavi language (128 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

examples of contrastive stress to encode semantic difference. One such minimal pair includes /kɑˈwam/ 'your mouth' and /ˈkɑwam/ 'your spouse'. Materials

Semivowel (1,101 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

pairs like abyecto ('abject') vs. abierto ('opened'). One potential minimal pair (depending on dialect) is ya visto [(ɟ)ʝaˈβisto] ('already seen') vs

Miluk language (1,966 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

though these appear in free variation with [u]. /i/ and /ɪ/ have a proven minimal pair (wii= 'thus' & wi 'who') and are therefore distinct phonemes, despite

Voiceless bilabially post-trilled dental stop (274 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Contrasts /t͡ʙ̥, t͡ʙ̥ʰ/. Wariʼ [t͡ʙ̥ot͡ʙ̥o] 'to be pleasant' Forms a minimal pair with [toto], which means 'to paint' tpotpowe [t͡ʙ̥ot͡ʙ̥oweʔ] 'chicken'

Example-based machine translation (654 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

translations into another. The particular example shows an example of a minimal pair, meaning that the sentences vary by just one element. These sentences

Shawnee language (3,022 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

[ɛ]. In (1) and (2), a near minimal pair has been found for Shawnee /i/ 'i' and /iː/ 'ii'. In (3) and (4), a minimal pair has been found for Shawnee /a/

Dickson's lemma (1,172 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the natural numbers there are only finitely many minimal pairs. Every minimal pair ( x , y ) {\displaystyle (x,y)} of natural numbers has x ≤ K {\displaystyle

ꞋAreꞌare language (1,227 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

h), and one approximant (w). The two fricatives are contrasted in the minimal pair ɾasu 'smoke' vs. ɾahu 'to be old'. The ꞌAreꞌare language has a five vowel

Latino-Faliscan languages (848 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Latin when the Latin alphabet was developed, since it gives rise to the minimal pair quī /kʷiː/ ("who", nominative) > cuī /ku.iː/ ("to whom", dative). In

Tawbuid language (1,734 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

phoneme in contrast with /f/ by the following: There is at least one minimal pair: tapi 'count (imperative)', from root tap plus suffix -i tafi 'slash

Itsari language (282 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

language. Itsari has phonemic pharyngealization, as is evidenced by the minimal pair šam 'lamb' – šaӏm 'candle'. Sumbatova, Nina R.; Mutalov, Rasul O. (2003)

Christian Neo-Aramaic dialect of Urmia (1,049 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

this is transcribed phonemically with a prefixed +, for example in the minimal pair /ʔarja/ [ʔærjæ] "lion" vs. /+ʔarja/ [ʔɑrˤjɑ], "saint's festival." Jewish

Jordanian Arabic (2,563 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

shown by the minimal pair kalbe “dog (f.)” and kalbi “my dog”. /o/ and /u/ are only contrastive word-finally as shown by the minimal pair katabo “he wrote

Plosive (2,142 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Japanese also prominently features geminate consonants, such as in the minimal pair 来た kita 'came' and 切った kitta 'cut'. Estonian is unusual for contrasting

Old Tibetan (1,089 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contrast between གཡ ⟨g.y⟩ /ɡj/ and གྱ ⟨gy⟩ /ɡʲ/, demonstrated by the minimal pair གཡང་ g.yaṅ "sheep" and གྱང་ gyaṅ "also, and". The sounds written with

Rotokas language (944 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Rotokas has nine; Aita adds phonemic nasals (e.g. this example of a minimal pair, /buta/ 'time' vs. /muta/ 'taste': 208 ). The Central dialect's limited

Approximant (3,028 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

appearing in the syllable onset: [ˈpjaˑno]) and Spanish (with a near minimal pair being abyecto [aβˈjekto] 'abject' and abierto [aˈβi̯erto] 'opened').

Havasupai–Hualapai language (2,143 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and short vowels are contrastive in the language. The following is a minimal pair illustrating of the phonemic contrast of Havasupai-Hualapai vowel length:

Amonap language (1,881 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mark plurality on nouns that are [-animate]. The following data is a minimal pair of readings that show the scope of /tuguhu/ and its usage as a pluralizer

Basel German (1,460 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

/ho:kkə/ ('hook'). Those speakers who use this pronunciation lack one minimal pair, since /hɔkkə/ also translates as 'crouch'. However, this shortening

Bengali phonology (2,978 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

to form caṭa ('the tea'), and the long vowel is preserved, creating a minimal pair ([ˈtʃaʈa] vs. [ˈtʃaˑʈa]). Knowing this fact, some interesting cases of

Maastrichtian dialect phonology (2,495 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Phonetically, syllables with Accent 2 are considerably longer. An example of a minimal pair is /ˈspøːlə/ 'to rinse' vs. /ˈspøː˦lə/ 'to play'. The difference is not

Cantabrian language (1,987 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

older speakers that lack any kind of merger, fully distinguishing the minimal pair /huegu/ - /xuegu/ (fire - game). Other features of the Cantabrian consonant

Kashaya language (2,637 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

"always be too shy" from the root /muna꞉c/ "be shy"; this verb forms a minimal pair with /munac/ "gather", which lacks stress shift in mu(nací꞉)(duce꞉)du

Glottal stop (2,577 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Brazilian casual speech, there is at least one [ʔ]–vowel length–pitch accent minimal pair (triply unusual, the ideophones short ih vs. long ih). See Portuguese

Khwarshi language (1,440 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

not include it in her chart of consonants, but nevertheless provides a minimal pair indicating there is a distinction between /t/ and /tʷ/: /eta/ "touch"

Russian phonology (9,362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

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',

Texistepec language (1,834 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

contrastive in lexical representations as is evident from the following minimal pair[s]:" t͡ʃɛːɲ 'honey' t͡ʃɛɲ 'shit' (Reilly 2002, 11) pak 'bone' paːk 'cold'

Turing degree (3,130 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

17: 273–280, doi:10.1002/malq.19710170131 Yates, C.E.M. (1966), "A minimal pair of recursively enumerable degrees", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 31 (2):

Afrikaans phonology (2,995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

are phonetically long before /r/. /ɛ/ contrasts with /ɛː/ only in the minimal pair pers /pɛrs/ 'press' – pêrs /pɛːrs/ 'purple'. Before the sequences /rt

Flapping (2,764 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

speakers who use the flapped allophone of /r/ (making the starting–starring minimal pair homophonous as [ˈstɑːɾɪŋ]), otherwise the sounds are distinguished as

Maastrichtian dialect (1,427 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Phonetically, syllables with Accent 2 are considerably longer. An example of a minimal pair is /ˈspøːlə/ 'to rinse' vs. /ˈspøː˦lə/ 'to play'. The difference is not

Extended Euclidean algorithm (4,467 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bézout's coefficients provided by the extended Euclidean algorithm is the minimal pair of Bézout coefficients, as being the unique pair satisfying both above

Cockney (10,353 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

a phonemic split has occurred in London English, exemplified by the minimal pair wholly /ˈɒwlɪj/ vs. holy /ˈəwlɪj/. The development of L-vocalisation

General American English (8,158 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

eːɪ, oːʊ, ɛː, ʌː, ɔː, æː, ɑː, aːɪ, ɔːɪ, aːʊ] elsewhere. (Listen to the minimal pair of kit and kid [ˈkʰɪt, ˈkʰɪːd].) All unstressed vowels are also shorter

Arapaho language (4,715 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

'Found in the Grass' (a mythological character). There is only one minimal pair to illustrate the contrast in distribution: núhuʼ, 'this' versus níhiʼ-

Hiberno-English (8,368 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

merge them with alveolar /t, d/, making tin ([tʰɪn]) and thin [t̪ʰɪn] a minimal pair. In Ulster they are [ð] and [θ]. Rhoticity: The pronunciation of historical

Turkish phonology (5,995 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

use of this diacritic has become increasingly archaic. An example of a minimal pair is kar ('snow') vs. kâr (with palatalized [c]) ('profit'). In addition

Fis phenomenon (1,465 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the child may believe that the subtle differences in their use of the minimal pair can be perceived by the adult, because the child themselves can recognize

Hamont-Achel dialect (1,057 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

some nouns. It is phonemic only in stressed syllables, an example of a minimal pair is hoes /ˈɦus/ '(record) sleeve' vs. hoes /ˈɦus˦/ 'house'. Verhoeven

Egyptian Arabic phonology (4,771 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

clusters. The epenthetic vowel is analyzed as /i/, even though there is a minimal pair distinguishing in many cases between [e] and [i], leading to: /bint ɡa

Phonological history of English close front vowels (5,336 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

very similar to the contrast between /ɨ/ and /ə/ in Romanian, as in the minimal pair râu /rɨw/ 'river' vs. rău /rəw/ 'bad'. Most dialects with the phenomenon

Cleft sentence (4,410 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

as proposed by Andrea Moro in Moro (1997) and many others. A telling minimal pair is the Italian equivalent of what I don't like is strange canonical copular

Dutch phonology (7,651 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

in certain other words, such as op [ʊp] ('on'), which can form a near-minimal pair with mop [mɔp] ('joke'). This, however, is subject to both individual

Standard German phonology (10,314 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The word Archen ('arks') is thus pronounced [ˈaːçn̩], which makes a minimal pair with Aachen [ˈaːxn̩], arguably making the difference between [ç] and

Hasselt dialect (1,362 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

only phonemic in the case of the /iː–iə/ pair, as exemplified by the minimal pair briêd /ˈbʀiːt˨/ 'broad' vs. brieëd /ˈbʀiət˨/ 'plank'. /ə, ɔ/ are mid

Proto-Athabaskan language (3,846 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

student and consultant of Franz Boas, with whom Sapir described the minimal pair /qáːt/ "crippled" and /qaːt/ "sockeye salmon". He then encountered tone