contrasting

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Comparing and contrasting
analogy
antithesis
apple
as againstidiom
balance something against something
comparative
contradistinction
contrast
contrastively
cross-reference
differentiate
measure
next
nonrelative
perspective
relative
relatively
shame
stack
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Examples of contrastive

contrastive
Only about 12.5% of those contexts contained comparative or contrastive information, regardless of the age of the person to whom utterances were addressed.
However, since the high-falling tone is for the most part no longer contrastive, this alternation is irrelevant to the phonologies of most speakers.
Historically, the central vowels were allophonic variants of front vowels, but subsequent developments have rendered the difference contrastive, so retraction is neutralising.
Here, the purpose was to evaluate one specific approach pertaining to the findings of contrastive analysis referred to as contrastive instruction.
The story becomes rather more complex when considering vowels that possess both contrastive phonation and contrastive tone.
These relations include causal, conditional, temporal, additive, elaborative, and contrastive relations.
But the variable realisation of creaky voice is not contrastive.
Most notable is contrastive stress, something that is just as structured and meaningful as conventional grammar.
He argued that when segments are contrastive, they contain greater representational (featural) structure than when they are not.
No language we know of makes contrastive use of these differences within an onset or coda.
Although there is a subdivision into ' exhaustive ' (contrastive) and ' non-exhaustive ' foci, these are functionally so close that the universal applies to both types alike.
An anonymous reviewer points out that the degree of nasalisation on vowels is in fact attested to be contrastive in some languages.
A word-list was constructed for each language containing minimally contrastive forms illustrating the syllable structure differences of interest.
As shown, this process of gendering mobilizes two main and largely contrastive representations of men as soft (feminine) and hard (tough, macho).
Contrastive rhetoric - an analytical framework for the study of second language writing - has had incredible staying power.
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