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Diaphonemic contrast (Briannah)[edit | edit source]
An interlanguage phonemic contrast (diaphonemic contrast) is the contrast required to differentiate between two cognate forms coming from two compared languages.[5] Within languages that have phonemic contrasts there can be dialects that do not have the contrast, or contrast differently (such as American South dialect pin/pen merger, where the two are not contrasted, but in other American dialects they are).

This page essentially has to be worked from scratch as there is no clear direction, sense of organization, or even much general information. An important source we need to use is "Phonemic Contrasts" by Morris Swadesh (Vol. 11, No. 4 (Dec., 1936), pp. 298-301) which is an early work defining Phonemic Contrast and giving solid examples that we can use, which are more applicable, especially with the context of the article, than the examples thrown in currently. This article, while a good base, is very short though and only uses English examples so we will need to expand more. I think that some non-English examples should be used. We will need to discuss as a group to decide which languages should be represented and why.