Contrastive rhetoric - an analytical framework for the study of second language writing - has had incredible staying power.
As shown, this process of gendering mobilizes two main and largely contrastive representations of men as soft (feminine) and hard (tough, macho).
A word-list was constructed for each language containing minimally contrastive forms illustrating the syllable structure differences of interest.
An anonymous reviewer points out that the degree of nasalisation on vowels is in fact attested to be contrastive in some languages.
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.
No language we know of makes contrastive use of these differences within an onset or coda.
He argued that when segments are contrastive, they contain greater representational (featural) structure than when they are not.
Most notable is contrastive stress, something that is just as structured and meaningful as conventional grammar.
