单词 | tone language |
释义 | > as lemmastone language tone language n. Linguistics a language which uses variations in pitch, in addition to different consonants and vowels, to distinguish words, e.g. Chinese. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > tone language tone language1930 1930 R. Paget Human Speech 188 In the Tone-languages, the melody of phonation is tied to the articulation. 1971 G. Ansre in J. Spencer Eng. Lang. W. Afr. 157 Most of the languages of the region [sc. West Africa] use pitch in their phonological patterning in a way which has earned them the term ‘tone languages’. 1978 Sci. Amer. Nov. 96/1 Many African and Asian languages are tone languages. < as lemmas |
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