French translation for "minimal pair"

paire minimale

Example Sentences:

	1.	Thus, the language included distinct sounds and minimal pairs that were written the same. Ainsi, la langue orale comportait des sons distincts et des paires minimales qui demeuraient identiques à l’écrit.
	2.	Phonemes are abstract units of sound, defined as the smallest units in a language that can serve to distinguish between the meaning of a pair of minimally different words, a so-called minimal pair. Le phonème est une unité abstraite de son, définie comme la plus petite unité qui permet de distinguer le sens d'une paire de mots peu différents, soit une paire minimale.
	3.	In English, for example, the words bat and pat form a minimal pair, in which the distinction between /b/ and /p/ differentiates the two words, which have different meanings. Par exemple, en anglais, les mots bat et pat forment une paire minimale, dans laquelle la distinction entre /b/ et /p/ différencie les deux mots qui ont des significations différentes (respectivement, chauve-souris et tapoter).
	4.	For some speakers, there are reported to be minimal pairs between nasal vowels and oral vowels, indicating that nasal vowels are also separate phonemes; these generally result from an earlier nasalized semivowel (historically the lenited version of /m/), that has since been lost. Pour certains locuteurs, il existe apparemment des paires minimales entre voyelles nasales et orales, ce qui fait des voyelles nasales des phonèmes distincts ; ceux-ci résultent en général d'une ancienne semi-voyelle nasalisée postérieure (historiquement la version lénifiée de /m/), perdue depuis.

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