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How to pronounce “floating tone”
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Pronunciation guide for floating tone
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- Practice the English pronunciation of floating tone with real speech in context.
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- Definition summary
- (phonology) A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighbouring morphemes.
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A Deep Dive Into “floating tone”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (phonology) A morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants or vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighbouring morphemes.
- (phonology) A phonemic tone which is not associated to a syllable and is only pronounced in its effect on neighboring tones, such as by causing downstep.
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