As can be seen from the examples above, the diphthongs and contrast with and respectively, though there are no minimal pairs to contrast and.
42.
There are many minimal pairs that attest to the contrasts between long and short vowels and between plain and laryngealized vowels in Misantla Totonac.
43.
Then we have the following B�zout's identities, with the B�zout coefficients written in red for the minimal pairs and in blue for the other ones.
44.
While such pairs are impossible to find for all possible minimal pairs, a sufficient number of such pairs can be produced to justify the method.
45.
Functional load of tone is high in the lexicon ( minimal pairs ) as well as in the grammar ( tenses marked by tone ).
46.
Kwaza has eight oral and seven nasal vowel phonemes, which are all attested a in minimal pair set, despite the rare / S / occurrence.
47.
The functional load of the nasal / oral contrast is not very high in Aslian languages ( not many minimal pairs can be cited ).
48.
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.
49.
It is virtually impossible to find a minimal pair to distinguish English from, yet it seems uncontroversial to claim that the two consonants are distinct phonemes.
50.
Speakers of East Asian languages that lack this sound tend to pronounce it as ( Mandarin ), thus failing to distinguish a number of English minimal pairs.
