floating tone

短语

词形变化

floating tones 复数 floating tones

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighbouring morphemes.

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  2. 2.

    A phonemic tone which is not associated to a syllable and is only pronounced in its effect on neighboring tones, such as by causing downstep.

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