单词 | word-tone |
释义 | > as lemmasword-tone word-tone n. Phonetics = tone n. 6a. ΚΠ 1876 Appletons' Jrnl. 6 May 607/1 We learn that in singing the Chinese are not able to give the needed ‘word-tones’, without which the words are confusing and often senseless. 1894 O. Jespersen Progress in Lang. ix. 340 So much for word-tones; now for the sentence melody. 1928 Proc. Brit. Acad. 14 354 The four word-tones used in the Mandarin language of Peking to keep otherwise identical words apart. 1999 Asian Music 30 167 Because the [Hmong] language is tonal and the word-tones are exaggerated in performance, the result sounds like song to us. < as lemmas |
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