- 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...
- 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...
- [kaꜜ.wa]. A
final [i] or [ɯ] is
often devoiced to [i̥] or [ɯ̥]
after a
downstep and an
unvoiced consonant. The ****anese term is kōtei
akusento (高低アクセント...
- "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...
- ⟨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...
- 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...
- In phonetics,
downdrift (also
known as
automatic downstep) is the ****ulative
lowering of
pitch in the
course of a
sentence due to
interactions among tones...
- 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...
- 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...
