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Downstep and Tone sandhi

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Difference between Downstep and Tone sandhi

Downstep vs. Tone sandhi

Downstep is a phenomenon in tone languages in which if two syllables have the same tone (for example, both with a high tone or both with a low tone), the second syllable is lower in pitch than the first. Tone sandhi is a phonological change occurring in tonal languages, in which the tones assigned to individual words or morphemes change based on the pronunciation of adjacent words or morphemes.

Similarities between Downstep and Tone sandhi

Downstep and Tone sandhi have 4 things in common (in Unionpedia): Downdrift, Floating tone, Tone (linguistics), Tone terracing.

Downdrift

In phonetics, downdrift (also known as 'automatic downstep') is the cumulative lowering of pitch in the course of a sentence due to interactions among tones in a tonal language.

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Floating tone

A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants, no vowels, but only tone.

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Tone (linguistics)

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.

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Tone terracing

Tone terracing is a type of phonetic downdrift, where the high or mid tones, but not the low tone, shift downward in pitch (downstep) after certain other tones.

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Downstep and Tone sandhi Comparison

Downstep has 10 relations, while Tone sandhi has 40. As they have in common 4, the Jaccard index is 8.00% = 4 / (10 + 40).

References

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