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The county is rather contrastive in the political field.

Because of its contrastive nature, the topic cannot be undefined.

The differences in these tones can be identified with the use of contrastive sets.

Many of the contributions made to contrastive rhetoric in the past 30 years have been ignored.

In others, it is the tone of the word which is contrastive.

All sounds, including consonants, come in short and long forms, which are contrastive.

Version (b) could not be described as contrastive or emphatic.

There is also a contrastive high tone, indicated here by an acute accent.

For contrastive purposes, however, any word may become the tonic syllable.

When category information is used there are contrastive judgments.

This is an example of a contrastive unit.

Independent pronouns tend to be contrastive, and usually appear first in the sentence.

Over the years, the term contrastive rhetoric has gained a negative connotation.

Contrastive rhetoric is the study of how a person's first language and culture influence his or her writing in a second language.

There are five contrastive lexical tones inherited from ancient Chinese.

There is only little evidence showing that the retroflex consonants are contrastive.

When information is readily accessible the subject usually makes a contrastive comparison between the new and familiar stimuli.

All vowels occur with contrastive duration: short or long.

In a language with contrastive intonation patterns, the most common ones should be drilled early on the series of lessons.

Plains Cree is usually described as having seven contrastive vowels, three short and four long.

Vowel length is contrastive as can be seen in the following examples:

There are also two contrastive vowel lengths and a contrast in nasalization.

The following areas are known to be contrastive:

Contrastive implosives are found in approximately 13% of the world's languages.

Strong and weak ejectives have not been found to be contrastive in any natural language.