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  • adjective Capable of being contrasted (with something else); admitting contrast.

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contrast +‎ -able

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  • Slide 9: Contrastive Stress In contrastive contexts, the stress pattern is quite different from the emphatic and non-emphatic stresses in that any lexical item in an utterance can receive the tonic stress provided that the contrastively stressed item can be contrastable in that universe of speech.

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