Complete Definition of "near-minimal pair"

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Alternative spellings
near minimal pair

Etymology
near + minimal pair

Noun
near-minimal pair (plural: near-minimal pairs)

  1. linguistics A pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.

Related terms
minimal pair

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