Explore Phonemic Minimal Sets (Minimal Pairs)
Phonologists use
minimal sets (or
minimal pairs) to demonstrate the phonemic inventory of a language.
This tool allows you to search for minimal sets in the
thai-language.com online lexicon.
Click here to show instructions.
Instructions
- Features set to vary are allowed to contrast independently within a set (example)
- To group together contrasting words according to shared feature values, select group for those feature(s) (example)
- Select group without vary to find largest sets that contain specified feature values (example)
- Select any to require that a feature have a non-empty value (example)
- All other settings are constraints on feature values (example)
- Only one-syllable words are considered
- Results appear as soon as selections are made; javascript support is required in your browser
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