minimal pairs (was: PIE e/o Ablaut)

[Stanley Friesen]

At 09:42 PM 4/3/00 +0300, Robert Whiting wrote:
>Yes, perhaps I should have said "many" people rather than "most"
>at the beginning.  The fact that this is a grammatically
>conditioned environment is preciesely the fact that leads some to
>insist that [th] and [dh] must be phonemically distinct (despite
>the fact that the only minimal pair that can be produced looks
>more like a historical accident than a true minimal distinction).

You mean 'teeth'-'teethe'?  That looks like a fine minimal pair to me.

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