Tone (linguistics)
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title:
Tone (linguistics)
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Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections, analogously to consonants and vowels. Languages that have this feature are called tonal languages; the distinctive tone pa
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Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tone_(linguistics)
date created:
2002-02-17T20:44:21Z
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2024-09-03T06:54:08Z
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