Home                    Word of the Week Links for Word Lovers Crossword Solver AllWords Forums    Help                       Bookstore             Advertise              Copyrights            Privacy                  AllWords Search Box Contact Us

English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'near-minimal pair' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions near-minimal pair noun (plural: near-minimal pairs) (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. Etymology: near + minimal pair        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the GNU Free Documentation License Allwords Copyright 1998-2008 Allsites LLC. All rights reserved.