English
Noun
minimal pair (plural minimal pairs)
- (phonology) A pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment, used to prove the validity of a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme.
Translations
pair of words differing by only one phonetic segment or suprasegment
- Catalan: parell mínim (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 最細對立體 / 最细对立体
- Mandarin: 最小對立體 / 最小对立体 (zuìxiǎoduìlìtǐ)
- Czech: minimální pár m
- Danish: minimalt par n
- Dutch: minimaal paar n
- Esperanto: minimuma paro
- Finnish: minimipari
- French: paire minimale (fr) f
- German: Minimalpaar (de) n
- Greek: ελάχιστο ζεύγος n (eláchisto zévgos)
- Hebrew: זוג מינימלי (he) m (zug minimali)
- Hungarian: minimális pár, minimálpár
- Icelandic: mágmarkspar n
- Irish: péire íosmhéide m
- Italian: coppia minima
- Japanese: ミニマル・ペア (minimaru pea), 最小対語 (さいしょうついご, saishōtsuigo), 最小対 (さいしょうつい, saishōtsui), 最小対立 (さいしょうたいりつ, saishōtairitsu)
- Korean: 최소 대립쌍 (choeso daeripssang)
- Manx: jees sloo f
- Norwegian: minimalt par n
- Nynorsk: minimalt par n
- Polish: para minimalna f
- Portuguese: par mínimo
- Romanian: pereche minimală f
- Russian: минима́льная па́ра f (minimálʹnaja pára)
- Spanish: par mínimo (es) m
- Swedish: minimalt ordpar n
- Thai: คู่เทียบเสียง
- Welsh: pâr minimol m
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