Czech minimal pairs

[Hugh Olmsted]

Dear colleagues--

I am writing on behalf of a student who wishes to find a comprehensive
printed or electronic list of Czech minimal pairs contrastively
displaying all the phonemes in the standard language.

An attempt at such a listing for British Received Pronunciation (RP) can
be found at URL: http://www.marlodge.supanet.com/wordlist/,  "Minimal
pairs for English RP, by John Higgins".  Higgins gives the following
working definition and explanation of the term and the notion:
    "Minimal pairs are pairs of words whose pronunciation
    differs at only one segment, such as sheep and ship or lice
    and rice. They are often used in listening tests and
    pronunciation exercises..."

So if anyone knows of such a thing for Czech, please write me off-list.
Information for other Slavic languages would also be of some interest.
If there are results and they would be of general interest, I'd be glad
to summarize them afterwards for the list.

Thanks for any help you can send our way,

Hugh Olmsted

Slavic Specialist
Research Services
Widener Library
Harvard University

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