--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister <no_re...@...> wrote: > > > Minimal pair > > From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia > > In phonology, minimal pairs are pairs of words or phrases in a > particular language, which differ in only one phonological element, > such as a phone, phoneme, toneme or chroneme and have a distinct > meaning. They are used to demonstrate that two phones constitute two > separate phonemes in the language. >
"Chroneme" is IMO an important phonemic feature also in Sanskrit, for instance in the minimal pair sama (same) <> saama (possession; song, etc.), as in 'saama-veda'. Don't read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chroneme
