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

to "near minimal pairs" to show that speakers of the language perceive two sounds as significantly different even if no exact minimal pair exists 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...

quality. The words beau /bo/ "beautiful" and bon /bɔ̃/ "good" are a minimal pair that contrasts primarily the vowel nasalization even though the /ɔ̃/...

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...

another in that context. A contrastive distribution is demonstrated with a minimal pair. Contrastive distribution is distinct from complementary distribution...

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism in the modern sense was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most...

/ð/ are distinct phonemes, not merely allophones, as demonstrated by minimal pairs such as thigh:thy, ether:either, teeth:teethe. They are distinguished...