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tone_language
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[ noun ] (linguistics) a language in which different tones distinguish different meanings
Synonyms Used in print (H. A. Gleason, "Review of African language studies...)The great majority of present-day linguists fall_into one or more of a number of overlapping types : those who are convinced that tone cannot be analysed , those who are personally scared of tone and tone_languages generally , those who are convinced that tone is merely an unnecessary marginal feature in those languages where it occurs , those who have no idea how to proceed with tone analysis , those who take a simplistic view of the whole matter . Tone_languages use for linguistic contrasts speech parameters which also function heavily in nonlinguistic use . In the `` typical tone_language '' , tonal morphophonemics is of the same order of complexity as consonantal morphophonemics . Related terms natural_language contour_language register_language tone_system |
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