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Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2008 Tone is a distinctive feature of the lexemes in tone languages. The information-structural category ‘focus’ is usually marked by syntactic and morphological means in these languages, but sometimes also by intonation strategies. In intonation languages, focus is marked by pitch movement, which is also perceived as tone.
Hartmann, Katharina, Katharina Hartmann
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Chinese and English Infants’ Tone Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization. [PDF]
, 2006 Over half the world’s population speaks a tone language, yet infant speech perception research has typically focused on consonants and vowels. Very young infants can discriminate a wide range of native and nonnative consonants and vowels, and then in a ...
Burnham, Denis, Mattock, Karen
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Phonetic and Phonological Effects of Depressor Consonants in Malawian CiTonga
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2022 In this paper we show that certain consonants have the effect of depressing the tone on adjacent vowels in Malawian CiTonga, a Bantu language spoken mainly in Nkhata Bay. We argue that some of these effects are phonological, changing High vowels to Low.
Winfred Mkochi +2 more
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Юмористический тон как маркер авторского взгляда в комедиях Надежды Птушкиной
Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2022 The article considers comic humour as an emotional and semantic component of the statements in two comedies written by Nadezhda Ptushkina: Paying ahead and Come and take away, which can be attributed to popular mass literature.
Natalia Maliutina
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Examining the Epic Language and Tone in Farrokhi Sistani's Poems [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2022 The tone is the speaker's attitude and feeling The most important factor is to create an atmosphere and influence the audience in the poem. Knowing the language and its tone plays an important role in understanding any text.
Ali Darvishi +2 more
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Journal of Hand Surgery Global Online, 2020 Purpose: Many studies have found no notable long-term differences in functional outcomes between operative and conservative treatments for distal radius fractures (DRFs) in elderly patients. However, those studies have not considered hand dominance.
Takafumi Hosokawa, MD +3 more
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Medicina, 2021 Background: The body mass index (BMI) is closely related to fat tissue, which may have direct or indirect effects on muscle function. Previous studies have evaluated BMI and muscle viscoelastic properties in vivo in older people or individual sexes ...
Serkan Usgu +2 more
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Musicality and Age Interaction in Tone Development
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 Vocal pitch, which involves not only F0 but also multiple covarying acoustic cues is central to linguistic perception and production at various levels of prosodic structure.
Nari Rhee, Aoju Chen, Jianjing Kuang
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Interaction of tone, syntax and semantics in the acquistion of chichewa negation.pdf
Studies in African Linguistics, 1989 The data for three children learning Chichewa as their first language between the ages of 1.0 and 2.6 were analyzed to identify and describe the patterns of development of tone, morpho-syntax and semantics in the acquisition of negation.
Moira Chimombo, Al Mtenje
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