English Explanatory Dictionary

floating tone

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Word forms

floating tone floating tones
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