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Tone (linguistics) and Tone contour

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Difference between Tone (linguistics) and Tone contour

Tone (linguistics) vs. Tone contour

Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning – that is, to distinguish or to inflect words. A tone contour, or contour tone, is a tone in a tonal language which shifts from one pitch to another over the course of the syllable or word.

Similarities between Tone (linguistics) and Tone contour

Tone (linguistics) and Tone contour have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Contour (linguistics), Diacritic, Kru languages, Prosodic unit, Tone (linguistics), Tone letter, Tone name.

Contour (linguistics)

In phonetics, contour describes speech sounds which behave as single segments, but which make an internal transition from one quality, place, or manner to another.

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Diacritic

A diacritic – also diacritical mark, diacritical point, diacritical sign, or an accent – is a glyph added to a letter, or basic glyph.

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Kru languages

The Kru languages belong to the Niger–Congo language family and are spoken by the Kru people from the southeast of Liberia to the east of Ivory Coast.

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Prosodic unit

In linguistics, a prosodic unit, often called an intonation unit or intonational phrase, is a segment of speech that occurs with a single prosodic contour (pitch and rhythm contour).

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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 letter

Tone letters are letters that represent the tones of a language, most commonly in languages with contour tones.

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Tone name

In tonal languages, tone names are the names given to the tones these languages use.

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Tone (linguistics) and Tone contour Comparison

Tone (linguistics) has 230 relations, while Tone contour has 19. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 2.81% = 7 / (230 + 19).

References

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