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minimal pair
noun Linguistics.
Origin:
1940–45
1940–45
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Minimal pair
is always a great word to know.
So is distinctive feature. Does it mean:
| a component or phonetic form characterizing a phoneme |
| the patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation, and composition |
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World English Dictionary
| minimal pair | |
| —n | |
| linguistics a pair of speech elements in a given language differing in only one respect and thus serving to identify minimum units such as phonemes, morphemes, etc. For example, tin and din constitute a minimal pair in English | |
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