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- 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...
- 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...
- [kaꜜ.wa]. A final [i] or [ɯ] is often devoiced to [i̥] or [ɯ̥] after a downstep and an unvoiced consonant. The ****anese term, kōtei akusento (高低アクセント,...
- 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...
- "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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
-   Kyoto type (tone+downstep)   Tokyo type (downstep) Map of ****anese pitch-accent types. The divide between Kyoto and Tokyo types is used as the Eastern–Western...