Near-minimal-pair Definition

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(linguistics) A pair of words differing by a few (but more than one) phonetic segments or suprasegments, used to suggest a proposed phoneme, toneme, or chroneme may be valid.

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Singular:
near-minimal-pair
Plural:
near-minimal-pairs

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