"contrastive" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "contrast + -ive",
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      "form": "more contrastive",
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        {
          "word": "contrastive linguistics"
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          "ref": "1965 June 4, Shigeyuki Kuroda, “Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language”, in DSpace@MIT, retrieved 2014-02-24",
          "text": "This thesis is an attempt to apply the theory of transformational grammar to the Japanese language. […] Comparison of the structure of Japanese and English is also our concern, whenever possible, and it is seen that the transformational theory is helpful in such contrastive studies.",
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          "ref": "1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World, page 141",
          "text": "Consider the first, allegedly contrastive fact, that there were some bank robbings by Sutton rather than no robbings at all by Sutton.",
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        {
          "ref": "2008, Alexandra Aikhenvald, The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea, page 1",
          "text": "Vowel length is contrastive.",
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        "Contrasting."
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          "Contrasting",
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  "word": "contrastive"
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          "ref": "1985, David-Hillel Ruben, The Metaphysics of the Social World, page 141",
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