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	Fryer - Minimal Pair Card Game for Improving Pronunciation and Listening (I-TESL-J)
		One of the difficulties a learner of a new language faces is that of minimal pairs.
		Minimal pairs are a more serious problem than simple poor pronunciation or listening skills on the part of a student.
		For example starting with only “S” and “Sh” pairs (sip and ship, sin and shin), then expanding to “F” and “H” (feel and heel, fit and hit), until finally they are dealing with all the various minimal pair types that are relevant to their L1 and L2 situation.
	iteslj.org /Lessons/Fryer-MinimalPairs.html (1467 words)

	Minimal pair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a particular language, which differ in only one phone, phoneme, toneme or chroneme and have a distinct meaning.
		In fact, this pair differs in voice onset time of the initial consonant as the configuration of the mouth is same for [p] and [b]; however, there is also a possible difference in duration, which visual analysis using high quality video supports.
		Phonemic differentiation may vary between different dialects of a language, so that a particular minimal pair in one accent is a pair of homophones in another.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Minimal_pair (928 words)

	Minimal pairs for English RP (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Minimal pairs are pairs of words whose pronunciation differs at only one segment (vowel or consonant sound), such as sheep and ship, or lice and rice.
		Although the normal definition of a minimal pair specifies that the words differ in one segment, it allows that segment to be widely different in terms of articulation.
		The minimal pair lists below have been prepared from the dictionary by means of a program which sorts the pronunciation field, identifies identical pairs (homophones), substitutes dummy characters for the symbols of the minimal pair, and then flags all the additional homophone pairs created by the process.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /marlodge/wordlist/index.html (1790 words)

	Minimal Pairs - ITIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A minimal pair is a pair of words which sound similar, but have one difference between them, for example "light" and "right".
		In the case of students reading the words, it's best to use pairs of words which have identical katakana spellings in Japanese, so as to force the students to think outside of the parameters of their own language when speaking English.
		Not all of these are minimal pairs in the technical sense, but for the purpose of helping Japanese speakers learn the difference between certain sounds in English, they can be very useful.
	www.ithinkimlost.com /wiki/index.php?title=Minimal_Pairs (341 words)

	Pedantry: Near mergers and the end of the minimal pair
		Near mergers and the end of the minimal pair
		This can be tested with a minimal pair test: If you say "meat" or "meet" in isolation, or in a sentence where either word could be used, people can't tell the difference.
		The existence of near mergers undermines the idea that phonetic spelling systems can be easily constructed, as minimal pair tests may not reveal all real distinctions.
	www.fistfulofeuros.net /pedantry/archives/002577.html (1014 words)

	Minimal Pair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is generally easier to view stereo pairs of objects that recede into the screen, to achieve this one would place the focal point closer to the camera than the objects of interest.
		The University of Saskatchewan is au pair austin the employer.
		Since a change in the critical temperature involves a change in the energy environment associated with the superconducting transition, this suggests that part of the energy is being used to move the atoms of the lattice since the energy depends upon the mass of the lattice.
	bout22.sitesled.com /minimal/pair.html (3734 words)

	Cooper pair - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Generally, the pairing is quite weak, meaning the paired electrons may be many hundreds of nanometers apart.
		Pair condensation is the basis for the BCS theory of superconductivity.
		Froehlich was first to suggest that the electrons act as pairs coupled by lattice vibrations in the material.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cooper_pair (479 words)

	Introduction to Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If it is a minimal pair, identify which prime is being illustrated (location, movement, handshape, palm orientation).
		Therefore, the two signs are minimal pairs, distinguished by the handshape prime.
		Therefore, the two signs are minimal pairs, distinguished by the movement prime.
	www.ic.arizona.edu /~indv101/homework5sums.html (270 words)

	Phonology 2
		One way to determine whether two sounds in a language are distinctive is to identify a minimal pair.
		A minimal pair is defined as a pair of words with different meanings which are pronounced exactly the same way except for one sound that differs.
		When you find a minimal pair, you know that the sound that varies from one word to the other is contrastive.
	www.ling.umd.edu /pablos/Phony_h2.htm (417 words)

	Take a look at Pair! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Although the normal pair definition of a minimal pair specifies that the words differ in one segment, it allows that segment to be widely different in terms of articulation.
		It au pair sacramento introduces no vertical parallax and is therefore creates the less stressful stereo pairs..
		However there is a kind of delight pair in recognising some of the pairs, which I feel may be related to the enjoyment we feel when we come across an outrageous rhyme in a song or piece of verse.
	bout22.sitesled.com (3146 words)

	Linguistics 105: Lecture No. 6
		A minimally phonologically distinctive pair of words establishes a minimal distinctive linguistic sound, known as a PHONEME, from among the acoustically distinguishable sounds in a language, known as the phones of the language.
		A minimal distinctive sound is one which can distinguish one word from another when all other sounds are identical.
		To establish the phonemes of a language such MINIMAL PAIRS, two words differing in just one distinguishable sound (hence 'minimal'), must be found for all the phonemes.
	www.departments.bucknell.edu /Linguistics/lectures/05lect06.html (394 words)

	LING 101: Phonology
		A minimal pair is a pair of words that have different meanings and which differ in only one sound.
		Since other minimal pairs can be found ([lʊk] "look" versus [luk] "Luke"), ([kɑt] "cot" versus [kɔt] "caught"), these vowels are also mentally significant, and are therefore phonemes.
		(They look like minimal pairs, but they aren't because the change in pronunciation doesn't cause a change in meaning.) Since the environments are exactly the same in these alternative pronunciations of 'Lisa' and 'six', nothing in the speech sounds themselves can predict which one of [s] or [z] will be used.
	www.ling.udel.edu /idsardi/101/notes/phonology.html (3188 words)

	Minimal pairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Notice we cannot find a complete set of minimal pairs to illustrate each sound, but even non-words like *zot are recognizable: Mott could be a person's name, or a brand name (Mott's Apple Juice) or an acronym (Multilingual Old Trekkers, e.g.) or an onomatopoeic word.
		So minimal pair isolation is a TOOL we can use; it is not a principle, it is a shortcut method that can help us find the minimal distinctions of the language; if we made charts and graphs we would discover that the minimal pairs show contrasts in identical environments.
		We are not looking for the minimal pairs as an end in themselves, but the minimal phonological distinctions, so as to eventually isolate the phonemic contrasts, or phonemic distinctions, and establish the minimal phonemic inventory for the language in question.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~haroldfs/popcult/handouts/intro/node25.html (240 words)

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		The elicitation corpus has three organizational properties: it is organized into minimal pairs; it is compositional (starting with smaller phrases and combining them into larger phrases); and it is dynamic (the elicitation takes a different path depending on what has been found so far).
		A minimal pair can be defined as two sentences that differ only in one feature.
		Some minimal pairs in English cannot possibly result in a minimal pair in a given target language, e.g.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/cmt-40/OldFiles/OldFiles/Nice/Papers/tmi02ProbstLevin/tmi02final.doc (3960 words)

	MINIMAL PAIRS
		A linguistic treatment approach using word pairs that have minimal phonemic contrast.
		This contrast involves pairing two words that differ by only one phoneme (Gierut, 1992).
		Develop minimal contrast pairs of target phoneme with an error phoneme (i.e.
	www.geocities.com /minimalpairs/minimal.index.html (251 words)

	Minimal pair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
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	pair.aimeho.com /minimal-pair.html (718 words)

	MINPAIR
		The output lists the two segments contrasting in the minimal pair, then the two words, each followed by its identifier, if supplied, and then the context for the difference, with a difference site marker (by default an underscore) marking the site of the difference.
		In order to find all minimal pairs it is normally necessary for the input notation to use one character for each segment.
		The GUI now sorts the output by default so that all tokens of the same minimal pair will be grouped together.
	www.billposer.org /Software/minpair.html (1255 words)

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	LESSON 3-1
		A minimal pair is a pair of words with different meanings “which are pronounced exactly the same way except for one sound that differs.” (File 4.1.
		73) Thus, we have a minimal pair in pin and bin.
		Another minimal pair, this time contrasting /t/ and /d/ would be till and dill.
	www.hamline.edu /personal/ferku/linguisticsfall2002/3phonemes.htm (1050 words)

	Phonemic Awareness -Min. Dif. Words!
		Minimal Sound Difference Word Pairs demonstrate how a word's meaning changes if just one phonemic sound in the word is changed!
		With the proper direction of a qualified SLP, these type of word pairs may help someone to understand that the meaning of the words they say, changes with the way they produce the target sound.
		These are aimed at increasing the student's Phonemic Awareness focus to saying their target sound properly to avoid saying a word different from the one they intended to say.
	www.speechpage.com /page/page/2109228.htm (339 words)

	English Pronunciation
		In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words that are the same except for one sound.
		Minimal pair exercise for words like LEGION and REGION.
		In this exercise, you will hear pairs of words which either contain the schwa or not.
	international.ouc.bc.ca /pronunciation (1075 words)

	Phonology
		In determining whether two sounds are separate phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme, look for a minimal pair containing those two sounds.
		If you don't find a minimal pair, the two sounds represent two separate phonemes.
		In determining whether two sounds are separate phonemes or allophones of the same phoneme, if you don't find a minimal pair, the two sounds are in complementary distribution, which means they are allophones of the same phoneme.
	buckhoff.topcities.com /Phonologyquiz.htm (310 words)

	Pedantry: Near mergers and the end of the minimal pair
		Near mergers and the end of the minimal pair
		This can be tested with a minimal pair test: If you say "meat" or "meet" in isolation, or in a sentence where either word could be used, people can't tell the difference.
		The existence of near mergers undermines the idea that phonetic spelling systems can be easily constructed, as minimal pair tests may not reveal all real distinctions.
	fistfulofeuros.net /pedantry/archives/002577.html (1014 words)

	What is the closest language to English? \| Antimoon Forum
		At least here, "their" and "Thayer" wouldn't form a true minimal pair, as here "their" is /Der/ -> [De:r\] whereas "Thayer" would most likely be /Te@`/ -> [Te@`].
		According to that page, for minimal pairs for /T/ and /D/, "thy" and "thigh", "ether" and "either" (in some dialects), and "loath" and "loathe" are listed as minimal pairs for them.
		This raises the question of why would two different allophones of the same phoneme, in the same position, differing only in voicing, differ very significantly on how apt they are to assimilate to other phones, if they truly were but allophones of a single phoneme.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t274-45.htm (1175 words)

	The Language Teacher Online: Williams, December 2003
		Select a pair of target sounds to practice and make a chart with 12 minimal pairs.
		A separate color should be used for each of the target sounds (e.g., green for /b/ and red for /v/), allowing them to be used for multiple lessons.
		Present the target sounds and minimal pair for practice to the class using the chart featuring the minimal pair.
	www.jalt-publications.org /tlt/articles/2003/12/williams (704 words)

	minpair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		'minpair' generates a list of minimal pairs (words differing in exactly one segment) from a list of words.
		The output lists the two segments contrasting in the minimal pair, then the two words, and then the context for the difference.
		The segments differing are listed in a order of the character codes so that all tokens of the same pair will sort together.
	directory.fsf.org /text/misc/minpair.html (279 words)

	phonemes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		To find out whether two sounds in a language are contrastive, i.e.
		A pair of words that satisfies these conditions is called a minimal pair.
		Here are a few examples of minimal pairs:
	www.uni-mainz.de /FB/Philologie-II/fb1413/elearning_phonetics/s_tuma_new_files/phonetics_discipline/phonetics_phonology/minimal_pair.htm (76 words)

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