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chapter 2.4.2 a pronouncing dictionary #254

Open Chen-Xuying opened 2 years ago

Chen-Xuying commented 2 years ago

"minimally contrasting sets of words" is a phonological term, deriving from "the minimal contrast pair(最小对比对)", according to which, the term here should not be translated as "最小受限集合", but "最小对比集合". A minimal contrast pair is a pair of words like "pit" and "pet", providing evidence that /i/ and /e/ are independent phonemes in English phonology.