Tone contour
Tone contour Tone contour is the how the pitch varies over a syllable for a tone in a tonal language. It is ...
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Talk:Tone contour
Talk:Tone contour Other usage weasle words Concerning this: [1 ... then, these conflicting facts in better words: Tone (linguistics)#Africa: 1=high, 5=low Tone (linguistics)#The Americas: 1=high, 5=low ...
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Tone (linguistics)
Tone (linguistics) It has been suggested that Tonal ... 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 leads ... a tonal language such as Chinese, the tone of each syllable can be independent ...
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Tone number
Tone number A tone number is a numeral used in a ... refer to tones by number: "the first tone", "the second tone", and so on. Tone numbers are also assigned for other ...
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Tone terracing
Tone terracing Tone terracing is a type of phonetic downdrift ... other tones. The result is that a tone may be realized at a certain pitch ... again, until the end of the prosodic contour is reached, and the pitches reset. A ... in pitch over time of a particular tone resembles a terrace. Tone terracing is ...
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Equal-loudness contour
Equal-loudness contour This is a Root page - a common ... several more specialised pages. An equal-loudness contour is a measure of sound pressure (dB ... listener was also presented with a reference tone at 1000 Hz. The reference tone was adjusted until it was perceived to ... of the same loudness as the test tone. Loudness, being a psychological quantity, is ...
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Talk:Tone (linguistics)
Talk:Tone (linguistics) Bantu languages are tonal? Swahili is ... 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 up ... meaning of the word depends on the tone. I believe there is a mythological ...
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Language with tone   (translated from French)
Language with tone For the homonymous articles, to see Your ... the page Unicode. One language with tone (or "tonal language") is one language in ... it possible to oppose minimal pairs. The tone are discrete units as well as phonemes ... and does not exist without them. The tone are studied mainly in phonetics and in ... the language. Synopsis Examples of languages to tone Majority of languages of the world ...
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Talk:Equal-loudness contour
Talk:Equal-loudness contour The curves you can see here are ... listener to mistake harmonics for the pure tone. - Lindosland Revised Graphs to ISO 226:2003 ...
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Talk:Standard Mandarin
... 04, 1 Aug 2003 (UTC) The third tone Here the contour is marked 214. Nevertheless it's the whole third tone (quan2san1sheng1) which is less popular than half thid tone (ban4san1sheng1). Should the contour of the half thid tone be ...
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