Contrastive may refer to one of several concepts in linguistics: *

Contrast (linguistics) In semantics, contrast is a distinction between two or more entities, with regards to their meaning and function On contrast Contrast is often overtly marked by markers such as ''but'' or ''however'', such as in the following examples: # It's ...

Contrastive distribution Contrastive may refer to one of several concepts in linguistics: *Contrast (linguistics) *Contrastive linguistics *Contrastive distribution *Contrastive analysis *Contrastive rhetoric *Contrastive focus reduplication *Contrastive stress *Contrastiv ...

Contrastive analysis Contrastive analysis is the systematic study of a couple of languages with a view to identifying their structural differences and similarities. Historically it has been used to establish language genealogies. Second language acquisition Contras ...

* Contrastive rhetoric * Contrastive focus reduplication * Contrastive stress *Contrastive wa; see

Japanese grammar Japanese is an agglutinative, synthetic, mora-timed language with simple phonotactics, a pure vowel system, phonemic vowel and consonant length, and a lexically significant pitch-accent. Word order is normally subject–object–verb with ...

*Contrastive units, a basic unit of sound **

Chroneme In linguistics, a chroneme is an abstract phonological suprasegmental feature used to signify contrastive differences in the length of speech sounds. Both consonants and vowels can be viewed as displaying this features. The noun ''chroneme'' is ...

Phoneme A phoneme () is any set of similar Phone (phonetics), speech sounds that are perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single basic sound—a smallest possible Phonetics, phonetic unit—that helps distinguish one word fr ...

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