The Share of Minimal Pairs for Word Forms and Lemmas
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https://doi.org/10.3986/jz.v15i1-2.2422Abstract
Minimal pairs differ by only a single phoneme (e.g., pear/bear). This article uses words from the index of the text corpus Nova beseda (New Word; 240 million running words) and lemmas from the web resource Besede slovenskega jezika (Slovenian Words; 356,000 entries) to calculate the share of minimal pairs with regard to near-minimal pairs in which words differ by two letters, and among all possible word pairs of equal length. The share increases with word length and is also significantly greater for word forms than for lemmas.Downloads
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