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near-minimal pair
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near minimal pair
Noun
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near
-
minimal pair
(
plural
near-minimal pairs
)
(
phonology
)
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.