Contrastive

Contrastive may refer to one of several concepts in linguistics:


 * Contrast (linguistics)
 * Contrastive linguistics
 * Contrastive distribution
 * Contrastive analysis
 * Contrastive rhetoric
 * Contrastive focus reduplication
 * Contrastive stress
 * Contrastive wa; see Japanese grammar
 * Contrastive units, a basic unit of sound
 * Chroneme
 * Phoneme