A tone contour or contour tone is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word. Tone contours...

falling tone, starting high and falling to the bottom of the speaker's vocal range: /â/ (pinyin ⟨à⟩) A neutral tone, with no specific contour, used on...

Tone letters are letters that represent the tones of a language, most commonly in languages with contour tones. This article contains phonetic transcriptions...

direction, approaching the tone 1 pitch contour, when put between tone 1 or 2 and any other full tone. Rising tone induced by the tone 3 sandhi also undergoes...

offglides /j, w/. T: Syllables are spoken with an inherent tone contour: Six tone contours are possible for syllables with offglides /j, w/, closed syllables...

with pure steady tones. The unit of measurement for loudness levels is the phon and is arrived at by reference to equal-loudness contours. By definition...

Phonologically, tone sandhi is often an assimilatory or dissimilatory process. Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi, explained above, is an example of an Obligatory Contour Principle...

dialects frequently employ neutral tones in the second syllables of words, creating syllables whose tone contour is so short and light that it is difficult...

become null tones Contour leveling, where a syllable removes its tone contour movement such that it becomes level Citation target, where a tone on a syllable...

checked tones are separated, the stop codas /p, t, k/ are in complementary distribution with the nasal codas /m, n, ŋ/. Cantonese uses tone contours to distinguish...