-
intermediate toneless syllable has its
pitch raised as well. When the
preceding syllable is high but the
following is
toneless, the
medial toneless syllable...
-
having high-toned
syllables versus toneless ones. Not
every word has a high tone. Over a
third of
nouns are
toneless and are
pronounced with all the syllables...
- he
observed that
their "purist lack of
compromise made [Exodus]
somehow toneless and
haranguing compared to multi-dimensional
personalities like Metallica...
- performance."
Mosher called it "a boy's voice, really,
rather flat,
rather toneless, yet
growing more
attractive as the
picture advances and you
become somewhat...
-
Popoff remarked how
Exodus remained the "last
custodians of a
manic but
toneless thrash, high on allegiance, low on hummability" and
easily forgettable...
-
contrast between high and low
tones (low-tone
syllables may be
analyzed as
toneless). The
realization of
tones in
Kinyarwanda is
influenced by a
complex set...
-
tones automatically added to
toneless words are
called 'phrasal tones'. The tone-raising rule also
applies to the
toneless syllables at the end of words...
- used
toneless pinyin in
government telegraph communications for decades. Likewise,
Chinese reporters abroad may file
their stories in
toneless pinyin...
-
though attested, are not as frequent.
Indospheric languages are
often toneless and/or
highly suffixal.
Often there is
considerable inflectional morphology...
- (esséntial), o-o-H (recomménd).
Toneless syllables receive other pitch ****ignments
depending on
their positions: word-initial
toneless syllables are M(id)-toned...
