Having fetched IPA transliterations for your wordlist, you may now finally find minimal pairs.
This is done with the generate command; you give it the output of
fetchipa which contains IPA transliterations bound to words and it spews out
another file, this time with all the minimal pairs it found, in a custom file
format.
By default, the generate command keeps minimal pairs based on phoneme
contrasts, chroneme contrasts and differences in syllable stress. You can
override this behaviour by using the following options:
--no-phonemes- ignore phoneme-difference-based minimal pairs during generation--no-chronemes- ignore chroneme-difference-based minimal pairs during generation--no-stress- ignore minimal pairs based on syllable stress differences during generation
Also, by default, minimal pairs that contain phonemes that are "interestingly
different" are kept, and all others are ignored.
You may override this behaviour by using the --no-optimise option, which keeps
all minimal pairs found, or you may define your own "interesting differences"
inside a file and specify it with the
--filter-file <PATH> option, where <PATH> is the path to the file.
After finding minimal pairs, you may create an Anki deck and import it into the app
If your file containing the JSON output of fetchipa is at german-ipa.json
and you want to put the default output of generate in a file called
german-minpairs.json, then you would run:
grzegorz generate german-ipa.json german-minpairs.json
If you wanted to keep all minimal pairs, except those based on syllable stress differences, then you could run:
grzegorz generate ipa.json minpairs.json --no-stress --no-optimise
If you wanted to use your own filters for minimal pairs when optimising, and put
the file at filters.txt, then you would run:
grzegorz generate ipa.json minpairs.json --filter-file "filters.txt"