floating tone
floating tone · floating tones
A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only toneA 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.
Значення
значень: 2A 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.
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.
Форми
множина: floating tones| Однина | floating tone |
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| Множина | floating tones |
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