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...
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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...
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Tone letters are letters that represent the tones of a language, most commonly in languages with contour tones. This article contains phonetic transcriptions...
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Standard Chinese phonology (redirect from Chinese tone)
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...
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Vietnamese phonology (redirect from Vietnamese Tones)
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...
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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...
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Phonologically, tone sandhi is often an assimilatory or dissimilatory process. Mandarin Tone 3 sandhi, explained above, is an example of an Obligatory Contour Principle...
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Mandarin Chinese (section Tones)
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...
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Northern Wu phonology (section Phonemic tone)
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...
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Cantonese phonology (redirect from Tones of Cantonese)
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...
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