A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains neither consonants nor vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself but...
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reversed tone letters are ⟨꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖⟩.[citation needed] Downdrift Downstep Floating tone Tone terracing Vowel harmony A citation tone is the tone that a...
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other tones. It may cause downstep, or it may combine with other tones to form contours. These are called floating tones. In many contour-tone languages...
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Downstep (category Tone (linguistics))
known as a 'floating tone'. An example occurs in Bambara, a language spoken in Mali. In Bambara, the definite article is a floating low tone. With a noun...
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Sotho tonology (section Tone types)
are also very few instances of "floating" tones, and fewer grammatical constructs indicated purely by a change in tone. (The most common instances of this...
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changed tones. It is realized in some cases as an additional high floating tone to end of the mid level, low level, mid falling and low falling tones; this...
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as lexical insertion into the syntactic. Alternation (linguistics) Floating tone Hybrid word List of Greek morphemes used in English Morphological parsing...
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Kumam dialect (section Tone)
'eyelash'. The second is when a floating high toneme is followed by a word beginning in a low toneme, where the floating tone is assigned to the following...
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features but remains different in other features. Tonal languages may exhibit tone assimilation (in effect tonal umlaut), but sign languages also exhibit assimilation...
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Nasalization (redirect from Nasal tone)
an ogonek or nosinė, is sometimes seen, especially when the vowel bears tone marks that would interfere with the superscript tilde. For example, [ą̄ ą́...
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Maninka language (section Tones)
high, low, rising and falling The marker for definiteness is a falling floating tone: /kɔ̀nɔ̀/ 'a bird' (LL), /kɔ̀nɔ᷈/ 'the bird' (LLHL, perhaps [kɔ̌nɔ̂])...
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elements, such as tone, syllable length, and stress, may be found in alternations. For example, Vietnamese has the following tone alternations which...
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Taishanese (section Tones)
lexical tones. These tones have been analyzed as the addition of a high floating tone to the end of the mid, low, mid falling and low falling tones. The...
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