"Neutral Tones" is a poem written by Thomas Hardy in 1867. Forming part of his 1898 collection Wessex Poems and Other Verses, it is the most widely praised...

language, but also the tones applied to each syllable. In addition to its four main tones, Standard Chinese has a neutral tone that appears on weak syllables...

contour tones. The second Chao letter variant are the dotted tone letters ⟨꜈ ꜉ ꜊ ꜋ ꜌⟩, which are used to indicate the pitch of neutral tones. These are...

which itself is half a whole tone. Quarter tones divide the octave by 50 cents each, and have 24 different pitches. Quarter tones have their roots in the music...

departing tones in the following Wu varieties: Neutral tones (Chinese: 輕聲), informally transcribed as 0 or not transcribed at all, are found in tone sandhi...

pre-nucleus neutral tone, exhibit different tone sandhi behavior. Disyllabic neutral tone words are also attested, as are some inter-nuclei neutral tones, mainly...

dialects have 8 tones, while Central and Western Huilai have 7 tones (tone ⑦ is merged with other tones). Some of the Huilai dialects undergo tone shift similar...

plus a quarter-tone, they may be considered three-quarter tones in the quarter tone scale. Approximations to the 12:11 and 11:10 neutral seconds can be...

Hokkien, there are only 7 distinct citation tones, as some of the 8 traditional tones merge into a single tone. Certain dialects (the Lengna dialect or the...

surrounds the very issue of tone sandhi (between glottal stop (-m) and low rising (-d) tones). High and high-falling tones (marked by -b and -j in the...

Tone letters are letters that represent the tones of a language, most commonly in languages with contour tones. This article contains phonetic transcriptions...

intervals may be termed neutral thirds: The undecimal neutral third has a ratio of 11:9 between the frequencies of the two tones, or about 347.41 cents...

relative saturation. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. Mixing a color with any neutral color (including...

Look up neutral or neutrality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Neutral or neutrality may refer to: Neutral organisms, in ecology, those that obey the...

tones, respectively, in the etymological four-tone analysis of Chinese. The dotted tone letters ⟨꜈ ꜉ ꜊ ꜋ ꜌⟩ are used for the pitch of neutral tones,...

twenty-four tones, seven are selected to produce a scale and thus the interval of a quarter tone is never used and the three-quarter tone or neutral second...

descriptions of the standard such as the Xiandai Hanyu Cidian, as well as more neutral tones. An example of standard versus Beijing dialect would be the standard...

Middle Chinese level tone and non-aspirates in other syllables. Of the four tones of Middle Chinese, the level, rising and departing tones have also developed...

hsiao3•chieh. It denotes the neutral tone by placing a dot (if the neutral tone is compulsory) or a circle (if the neutral tone is optional) before the syllable...

John Ireland, Muriel Herbert, Ivor Gurney and Robin Milford. Orchestral tone poems which evoke the landscape of Hardy's novels include Ireland's Mai-Dun...

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Tone numbers are numerical digits used like letters to mark the tones of a language. The number is usually placed after a romanized syllable. Tone numbers...

of pink or peach; eyeshadows, lipstick and blushes were brown-based, neutral tones that were free of the pastel, vivid, or sparkly colors. Although Ultima...

wear warm tones of orange, yellow, and red—an homage to his Caribbean ancestry.: 29  By contrast, Julieta and Agustín's side wear cool tones of blues,...

other three tones. For example the syllable spelled ai (first tone) becomes air, ae and ay in the other tones. A neutral (unstressed) tone can optionally...

towards the end of the first century, could use a neutral tone towards Christians, with some tones of sympathy, implying that they may be worthy of Roman...

had been. While CBS insisted on color, Lear had the set furnished in neutral tones, keeping everything relatively devoid of color. As costume designer...

influence its meaning. In Taiwanese, which has nine tones and two extra tones, neutral tone and nasal vowel. Tones are expressed by diacritics; checked syllables...

following table, tone marks for the second, third, and fourth tones are shared between bopomofo and pinyin. In bopomofo, the mark for first tone is usually...

the tone order is "zero tone (neutral tone), first tone (flat tone), second tone (rising tone), third tone (falling-rising tone) and fourth tone (falling...