Tone (linguistics)
Tone (linguistics) It has been suggested that Tonal language ... on top of the character as intended. Tone is the use of pitch in language ... such nuances, but not every language uses tone to distinguish lexical meaning. When this occurs ... are not tonal. The way in which tone is used in a particular language ...
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Talk:Tone (linguistics)
Talk:Tone (linguistics) Bantu languages are tonal? Swahili is a ... 2004 (UTC) Norwegian and Swedish have prosodic tone patterns, but they do not lead to ... number of words that differ only in tone are not that many, but they do ... the tones with respect to the 'base' tone is very important (this feature makes ...
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Tone
Tone The word tone is used in several different fields with different meanings. Look up Tone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, tone may be synonymous with: Pitch (music), the ... a note or sound. See also pure tone. Note, the name of a pitch, ...
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Hakka (linguistics)
Hakka (linguistics) Hakka (客家话) Spoken in: China ... a yin-yang splitting in the Ping tone, and a yin-yang splitting in the Ru tone, giving it six tones. Tone name Yin Ping Yang Ping Shang Qu Yin Ru Yang Ru Tone contour 44 11 31 53 1 ...
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Cantonese (linguistics)
Cantonese (linguistics) This article is on all of the ... a high-level and a high-falling tone is observed; the two tones in question ... largely merged into a single, high-level tone, especially in Hong Kong Cantonese. Many (especially ... chiefly because, in these accounts, a separate tone category is assigned to syllables ending in ... Mandarin has 4 tones plus a "neutral" tone. Cantonese preserves many syllable-final sounds ...
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Jin (linguistics)
Jin (linguistics) Jin (晋语 jìnyǔ) Spoken in ... Chinese. Jin has also kept the entering tone, which is the tone that goes with the final glottal stop. Jin employs extremely complex tone sandhi, or tone changes that occur when words are ...
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Talk:Cantonese (linguistics)
Talk:Cantonese (linguistics) Toishanese Those are dialects of the Cantonese ... 20837;, 低入) which has the same tone as 陰平, 陰去, 陽去 ... There are seven tones: a high level tone a mid rising tone a mid level tone a low falling tone a low ...
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Mandarin (linguistics)
Mandarin (linguistics) This article is on all of the ... is either an offglide or /n/), plus tone." Not every syllable that is possible according ... Wikibooks has more about this subject: Mandarin (linguistics) Ethnologue report on Mandarin Chinese language source ...
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Prosody (linguistics)
Prosody (linguistics) Linguistics Theoretical linguistics Phonetics Phonology Morphology Syntax Semantics Lexical semantics ... semantics Prototype semantics Stylistics Prescription Pragmatics Applied linguistics Psycholinguistics Sociolinguistics Generative linguistics Cognitive linguistics Computational linguistics Descriptive linguistics ...
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Stress (linguistics)
Stress (linguistics) In linguistics, stress is the relative emphasis given to ... or Russian. The possibilities for stress in tone languages is an area of ongoing research ... of stress. (For more details see Timing (linguistics).) Some languages have fixed stress. That is ...
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