Minimal Pairs

Minimal pairs

/tʃ/ Voiceless palato-alveolar affricate. vs. /dʒ/ Voiced palato-alveolar affricate.


Example "cheap" /tʃi:p/ vs. "jeep" /dʒi:p/

For Spanish speakers it is problematic because /tʃ/ exists as a phoneme in Spanish but not /dʒ/. For Valencian speakers the /dʒ/ is similar to the first consonant sound in Generalitat.

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cheer ...

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2

... jest

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3 

  chin ...

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4  

char ...

 

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choke ...

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