-
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...
-
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...
- (esséntial), o-o-H (recomménd).
Toneless syllables receive other pitch ****ignments
depending on
their positions: word-initial
toneless syllables are M(id)-toned...
- "entering tone".
Syllables closed with a
glottal stop in Jin are
still toneless, or alternatively, Jin can be said to
still maintain the
entering tone...
-
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...
-
amata 'milk', or
Mbarara (name of a town), are
underlyingly toneless. However,
toneless words usually receive automatic default tones,
called phrasal...
- only be
leaving behind loneliness. "I must
remember that,"
Corry says
tonelessly. "I must
remember to keep that in mind." On a
microscopic piece of sand...
- he
observed that
their "purist lack of
compromise made [Exodus]
somehow toneless and
haranguing compared to multi-dimensional
personalities like Metallica...
