brambleberries. Downstep proper, or non-automatic downstep, is another phenomenon found in many African languages such as Igbo (see for an overview of downstep in...

[kaꜜ.wa]. A final [i] or [ɯ] is often devoiced to [i̥] or [ɯ̥] after a downstep and an unvoiced consonant. Normative pitch accent, essentially the pitch...

"accent" may be characterized as a downstep rather than as pitch accent. The pitch of a word rises until it reaches a downstep and then drops abruptly. In a...

but their effect remains as a downstep. Rising tones (low–high) simplify to high after high (without triggering downstep) and to low before high. Hwevísatɔ́...

In phonetics, downdrift (also known as automatic downstep) is the cumulative lowering of pitch in the course of a sentence due to interactions among tones...

syllable-initial consonant. ⟨ꜛ ꜜ⟩ are defined in the Handbook as "upstep" and "downstep", concepts from tonal languages. However, the upstep symbol can also be...

Unique among other Danao languages, Maranao is spoken with a distinct downstep accent, as opposed to stress accent.[citation needed] Additionally, Maranao...

Tone registers ◌̋ ˥ ꜒ Extra-high (top) ◌́ ˦ ꜓ High ◌̄ ˧ ꜔ Mid ◌̀ ˨ ꜕ Low ◌̏ ˩ ꜖ Extra-low (bottom) ꜜ◌ Downstep ꜛ◌ Upstep...

⟨ꜞ⟩ were adopted as the Africanist equivalents of the IPA characters ⟨ꜜ⟩ downstep and ⟨ꜛ⟩ upstep. The correspondence of U+A71D ⟨ꜝ⟩ to the IPA click letter...

  Kyoto type (tone+downstep)   Tokyo type (downstep) Map of Japanese pitch-accent types. The divide between Kyoto and Tokyo types is used as the Eastern–Western...

the high or mid tones, but not the low tone, shift downward in pitch (downstep) after certain other tones. The result is that a tone may be realized at...

Bambara, and Susu. All of these preserve the typical West African terraced downstep in tonality that is only lightly alluded to in the Western Mandinka dialects...

segments that bear them. Tonal sandhi processes like tone spread, tone shift, downstep and downdrift are common in African languages. Widespread syntactical structures...

Kikuyu has two level tones (high and low), a low-high rising tone, and downstep. The canonical word order of Gĩkũyũ is SVO (subject–verb–object). It uses...

Medumba shows downstep, where H is produced at a lower pitch than an immediately preceding H tone; downstep is represented as (ꜜ). Downstep is viewed as...

"prominent" syllable of a clause, usually the first high tone, there is a downstep. This syllable is usually stressed. Akan forms some plural nouns by adding...

also has the peculiarity that the drop in pitch of a word (so-called "downstep") cannot come after any of these "special mora" under any conditions (barring...

ʡ epiglottal plosive Archi гӀарз (complaint) [>\arz] ^ ꜛ upstep   ! ꜜ downstep   !\ ǃ postalveolar click Zulu iqaqa (polecat) [i:!\a:!\a] | | minor (foot)...

Gur languages have been described as following the model of a two tone downstep system, but the languages of Oti-Volta branch and some others have three...

and vowels do. In many register-tone languages, low tones may cause a downstep in following high or mid tones; the effect is such that even while the...

two contrasting tones: a high (á) and a low tone (à). There is also a downstep in cases of tonal sandhi. There is vowel harmony in two groups (the high...

Sub-Saharan Africa. Upstep is a much rarer phenomenon than its counterpart, downstep. The symbol for upstep in the International Phonetic Alphabet is a superscript...

for aspect. Most Gur languages to the north of Senufo have a two tone downstep system, but the tonal system of the Senufo languages is mostly analysed...

American Violet as Darrell Hughes, this year marked a significant financial downstep for him, earning merely $70,000, opposed by almost $500,000 one year prior...

sometimes written before the syllable, in accordance with writing stress and downstep before the syllable, and as had been done with the unstaffed letters in...

of western Chūbu region. The Tokyo accent distinguishes words only by downstep, but the Kansai accent distinguishes words also by initial tones, so Kansai...

a low-high sequence. Thus at a phonemic level, high, low, falling, and downstep are contrastive. The majority of Sandawe syllables are CV. Morpheme-initially...

the influence of depressor consonants or through the introduction of a downstep. Languages which have more tonal levels tend to use tone more for lexical...

Unicode components of the reversed tone letters are ⟨꜒ ꜓ ꜔ ꜕ ꜖⟩. Downdrift Downstep Floating tone Tone terracing Vowel harmony A citation tone is the tone...

(particularly Mixtecan) also have tone terracing where some tones "upstep" or "downstep", causing a rise or drop in pitch level for the entire tonal register in...