Contrastive

Perhaps example number 10 could be explained as contrastive (or emphatic stress). ❋ Unknown (2010)

It is contrastive experiences like these so close together that helped us understand how precious learning resources are and how critical access to these resources is for literacy development for individuals and their communities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This third edition: – has 10 completely new units, including 9 new units on phrasal verbs to more thoroughly cover this important area for intermediate students. – has even more Additional Exercises, to offer more contrastive practice. – is in full colour and has a slightly larger format to look clearer and more inviting for students. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This takes conscious contrastive action towards achieving that goal. ❋ Hale Dwoskin (2011)

While reading egs 6 – 12 (five instances of him and one of me) I found myself constantly trying to make them work, and I could, by imputing dramatic or contrastive stress as Duncan says, or contextual harmony or creative (eg poetic) language play, or other discoursal pressures. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps example number 10 could be explained as contrastive or emphatic stress. ❋ Unknown (2010)

English Grammar in Use Third edition: – has 10 new units, including 9 new units on phrasal verbs to extend this important area for intermediate students. – has even more Additional Exercises, to offer more contrastive practice. -is informed by the Cambridge International Corpus to ensure all the language taught is authentic and up-to-date -is in full colour and has a slightly larger format to look clearer and more attractive on the page. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The book discusses contrastive rhetoric, schema theory, cross- cultural communication, learning styles and strategies, and collaborative learning, and examines response and evaluation techniques to be used with ESL writing, with examples and sample scoring guides. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(For discussion of the relevance of contrastive explanation to the causes/conditions distinction see Menzies 2004a; 2007.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

Stanford argues that a convincing case for contrastive underdetermination of this recurrent, transient variety can indeed be made, and that the evidence for it is available in the historical record of scientific inquiry itself ❋ Stanford, Kyle (2009)

Of course, no one thinks that generating and testing fundamental scientific hypotheses is just like finding curves that fit collections of data points, so nothing follows directly from this mathematical analogy for the significance of contrastive underdetermination in most scientific contexts. ❋ Stanford, Kyle (2009)

The only marginal exception, I think, would be cases with contrastive stress on the pronoun, e.g. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This is a feature of English that would be impossible in languages like Italian and Spanish as John Wells was saying the other day here, under the heading “nuclear-free zones”, where the stress truly is fixed, and shifted contrastive stress is not allowed. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These patterns are also changing: the dispute type is joining the contrastive stress group (again 68% to 32% preference for the traditional pattern according to LPD), while the contrastive group is losing the contrast by stressing the first syllable in both noun and verb (e.g. import and export). ❋ Unknown (2009)

It also serves as a contrastive subordinator like ‘but’, as in: He was reserving judgement, though he considered it a hopeful sign. ❋ DC (2009)

In fact, the lack of synchronicity becomes more contrastive with each passing day. ❋ Unknown (2009)