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SEMINAR ONLINGUISTICS

RRANGED BYLARASATI K2206021

INA ARDIAN S P K2206037


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the statement: The words mate-meet,

seat-eats and write-right are minimal pairs.


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WHAT IS MINIMAL PAIR?

Minimal pairs are pairs of words orphrases in a particular language,which differ in only one phonological

element (phone, phoneme) and havea dictinct meaning.

They are used to demonstrate that

two phones constitute two separatephonemes in the language.


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For the example

For english vowel:

ship / p/

sheep / i:p/

For english consonant

pat /pt/ bat /bt/


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More examples:

Word 1 Word 2 IPA 1 IPA 2 Note

Pin Bin / /pn / /bn InitialconsonantRot Lot

/ /rt / /lt

Zeal Seal / /zi l

/ /si l

Bin Bean / /bn / /bi n vowel

Pen Pan / /pen / /pn

hat had / /ht / /hd Final

consonant


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the words mate-meet

case 2:

the words seat-eat

case 3:

the words write-right

are these words minimal pairs?????


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Identification the first case:the words mate-meet

mate /meit/

[m] [ei] [t]

These words areminimal pairs??

Meet /mi:t/

[m] [i:] [t]

These are contrastive distribution


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Identification the first case:the words seat-eat

word ipa meaning

Seat /si:t/ Something used forsitting on

eats /i:ts/ Put food into one smouth and swallow it

,he same phoneme but contrast in the positi


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Identification the first case:the words write-right

word IPA Meaningwrite / /rait Menulisright / /rait /Benar hak

nd right have a same pronunciation but ha, .OT minimal pairs


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Conclusion Minimal pair is a set of two words that are

only differentiated by one tiny sound.

Minimal pair happens when two sounds can

be used to differentiate words.

So, according to the statement above, theword mate-meet, seat-eats and write-

right are NOT minimal pair.


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Thank You


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Phone/ phonetics

A speech sounds or gestureconsidered a physical event withoutregard to its place in the phonology

of a language. Phonetic symbology is always set off

within square brackets [].


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phoneme

is the smallest segmental unit ofsound employed to formmeaningful contrasts between

utterances. Phoneme symbology is always set off

within slant bracket //.


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Contrastive distribution

is the relationship between twodifferent elements, where bothelements are found in the same

environment with a change inmeaning. An example of this inEnglish would be /d/ and /p/, as can

be seen in the words dotand pot.


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homophone

Homophones are words that haveexactly the same sound(pronunciation) but differentmeanings and (usually) spelling. Forexample;

The following two words have the samesound, but different meanings andspelling:

hour our The two words have same sounds and

spelling, but different meanings: Bear (the animal)

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