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-eme
indicating a minimal distinctive unit of a specified type in a language -
contrastive stress
a stress imposed on a word or syllable contrary to its normal accentuation in order to contrast it with an alternative word or syllable or to focus attention on it, as the stress given to the normally unstressed word of in government of the people, by the people, for the people in order to point up the parallel between of, by, and for and to distinguish of from words such as over or against. -
retronym
a term coined in modification of an original term that was used alone (as acoustic guitar instead of guitar ) to distinguish it from a term referring to a later development (as electric guitar ). Other examples of retronyms are snail mail and analog watch . -
toneme
a phoneme consisting of a contrastive feature of tone in a tone language: Swedish has two tonemes.