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21tone — n 1. sound, noise, note, voice, sonance; pitch, frequency. 2. timbre, tonality, tone color, tone quality, sound quality, color, coloring, Music. clang color or tint, Music, Ger. Klangfarbe; ring, clang, resonance; sonority, sonorousness, richness …
22syllable — (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. sonant, phone; tone, accent, inflection. See speech …
23syllable name — noun : the name of a given musical tone in solmization compare sol fa syllables …
24Checked tone — A checked tone, commonly known by its Chinese calque entering tone (simplified Chinese: 入声; traditional Chinese: 入聲; pinyin: rùshēng, lit. The tone of Chinese Character 入 ), is one of four syllable types in the phonology in Middle Chinese which… …
25Entering tone — (zh stp |s=入声 |t=入聲 |p=rùshēng) is one of four syllable types in the phonology in Middle Chinese which are commonly translated as tone . However, it is not a tone in the phonetic sense, but rather describes a syllable which ends in a stop… …
26Reciting tone — In chant, a reciting tone (also called a recitation tone) is a repeated musical pitch around which the other pitches of the chant gravitate, or by extension, the entire melodic formula that centers on one or two such pitches. In Gregorian chant,… …
27Minor syllable — is a term used primarily in the description of Mon Khmer languages, where a word typically consists of a reduced (minor) syllable followed by a full tonic or stressed syllable. The minor syllable may be of the form /Cə/ or /CəN/, with a reduced… …
28Continuous Tone-Coded Squelch System — In telecommunications, Continuous Tone Coded Squelch System or CTCSS is a circuit that is used to reduce the annoyance of listening to other users on a shared two way radio communications channel. It is sometimes called tone squelch. Where more… …
29Changed tone — Cantonese changed tones (also called pinjam[1]; traditional Chinese: 變音; simplified Chinese: 变音; pinyin: biànyīn; Jyutping: bin3jam1, Yale: binyàm) occur when a word s tone becomes a diff …
30Floating tone — A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants, no vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighboring morphemes.An example occurs in Bambara. Bambara has two phonemic …
