Key points Minimal pair puzzles incorporate a known principle about language. They challenge us to consider the relation between form and meaning. They reveal how word meaning is recognized.

Linguistics and Philosophy focuses on issues related to structure and meaning in natural language, as addressed in the philosophy of language, linguistic semantics, syntax and related disciplines, in ...

Noel L. Corbett, French Phonology and Morphology in Transition: From Autonomous Phonemics to Generative Process, Romance Philology, Vol. 34, No. 3 (February 1981), pp. 293-303 ...