contrastive's Usage Examples:

(the default emphasis of certain words within phrases or clauses), and contrastive stress (used to highlight an item, a word or part of a word, that is.

general class of Boltzmann machines, in particular the gradient-based contrastive divergence algorithm.

conveys which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable, or contrastive information.

Choni has four contrastive aspirated fricatives: /sʰ/ /ɕʰ/, /ʂʰ/, /xʰ/.

Dental and retroflex stops are contrastive in Maldivian.

Languages in Contrast is a peer-reviewed academic journal of contrastive linguistics established in 1998 and published biannually by John Benjamins Publishing.

There are four contrastive trills, including the typologically rare plain bilabial trill.

totality of human speech components such as phoneme which is the smallest contrastive unit in the sound system of a language.

Contrastive focus reduplication, also called contrastive reduplication, identical constituent compounding, lexical cloning, or the double construction.

languages, notably most Indian and East Asian languages, the difference is contrastive.

An IPA chart of all contrastive sounds in Marathi is provided below.

In linguistics, complementary distribution, as distinct from contrastive distribution and free variation, is the relationship between two different elements.

Synonyms:

disjunctive;

Antonyms:

similar; conjunctive;