over vowels: A high level tone: /á/ (pinyin ⟨ā⟩) A tone starting with mid pitch and rising to a high pitch: /ǎ/ (pinyin ⟨á⟩) A low tone with a slight fall...

High Tone is a dub band from Lyon, France. Formed in 1997, the band came with an emergence of the French dub music Scene, with bands like Brain Damage...

weight" and high tone is perceived as "tight, light, strong". Muscles with high tone are not necessarily strong and muscles with low tone are not necessarily...

It is traditionally described as having three tones: high (á), low (à) and falling (â). Rising tones are not found in Luganda, even on long vowels, since...

possible tones were commonly distinguished: high, medium and low level, [ˉa ˗a ˍa] (or as dots rather than macrons for 'unaccented' tones); high rising...

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...

between high tone and mid tone. In a polysyllabic word, the tone of the first syllable determines the tone of the entire word. If the first tone is high, the...

Tone mapping is a technique used in image processing and computer graphics to map one set of colors to another to approximate the appearance of high-dynamic-range...

with either a high or a low tone. However, low tone does not behave the same as the other two, as high tones can "spread" into low-toned syllables while...

Anthony Terrell Smith (born March 3, 1966), better known by his stage name Tone Lōc (/toʊn loʊk/), is an American rapper. He is known for his raspy voice...

high tone is preceded by that high tone, the initial high tone is lost. (That is, there cannot be two adjacent marked high tones in a word, but high tone...

Tone terracing is a type of phonetic downdrift, where the high or mid tones, but not the low tone, shift downward in pitch (downstep) after certain other...

tone and a 1209 Hz high tone. Initial pushbutton designs employed levers, enabling each button to activate one row and one column contact. The tones are...

A tone contour or contour tone is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word. Tone contours...

Pure-tone audiometry is the main hearing test used to identify hearing threshold levels of an individual, enabling determination of the degree, type and...

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...

The off-hook tone (also off-hook warning, howling tone, or howler tone) is a telephony signal for alerting a user that the telephone has been left off-hook...

HighTone Records was an American independent record label based in Oakland, California, United States. HighTone specialized in American roots music including...

main clause verbs. Tones are also used in intonation and phrasing. Conventionally Chichewa is said to have high tones (H) and low tones (L). However, it...

Stanislaus Pascal Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American actor, producer, and director of stage, film and television. He...

A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of sine waves separated by octaves. When played with the bass pitch...

language, spoken with two basic tones, high (H) and low (L). The Sesotho grammatical tone system (unlike the lexical tone system used in Mandarin, for example)...

convention, a single tone letter ⟨˥⟩ is used for a high tone on a checked syllable, and a double tone letter ⟨˥˥⟩ for a high tone on an open syllable....

phonemic low tone, becomes falling (high–low). Low tones disappear between high tones, but their effect remains as a downstep. Rising tones (low–high) simplify...

but affects the tones of neighboring morphemes. An example occurs in Bambara, a Mande language of Mali that has two phonemic tones, high and low. The definite...

name for an accented mora, a mora that carries a high tone and is followed by a mora with a low tone. In other words, the precipitous drop in pitch occurs...

two tones, high and low. Unmodified nouns are either high tone on all syllables or low tone on all syllables. The definite suffix -o takes a low tone on...

tones: extra high, high, mid-high, high, and low. The high tone is represented with an acute accent ⟨◌́⟩. The mid tone is unmarked ⟨◌⟩. The mid-high tone...

of high and low syllables. Standard Vietnamese has six tones, known as ngang, sắc, huyền, hỏi, ngã, and nặng tones. Thai has five phonemic tones: mid...

is not high-toned but part of a noun phrase, the second vowel is half-lengthened (e.g. o-mu-ana wange → [omwaˑna wáŋge] "my child"] A high-toned vowel...