According to 7, [man3]-[jan3]-[lwan3] (as in 满 mǎn 'full', 演 yǎn 'perform', and 卵 luǎn 'egg', where 3 indicates the third tone in Putonghua) rime with each other.
The third tone in wo means that the sound is pronounced with the tone first going down, then up.
The organist Avi Stein opened the program with a stirring rendition of the three-movement Suite in the Second Tone by Jean Adam Guilain, a German organist and harpsichordist who worked in Paris during the first half of the 18th century.
But the greater polish and resonance helps to illuminate the singing lines of works like the dreamy "Pavan in the Second Tone" by Bull or Byrd's "Qui Passe: for my ladye nevell," in which a melancholic modal opening gives way to an increasingly flashy invitation to dance.
In the second tone reading, the character would normally be translated as 'to act'.
The third tone xi should rise to a high pitch that is maintained in the first tone huan.
Mean N1m peak latencies in response to the second tone presentation (same vs. different) also did not differ between hemispheres or conditions.
In both tasks the first tone (600 ms duration and 1000 Hz frequency) was the standard tone, while the second was one of six comparison tones (three longer/higher and three shorter/lower than the standard).
Analysing peak latencies, we found significantly longer latencies in response to the second tone (F1,9 = 7.39, P = 0.02), but no significant difference between right and left-hemisphere (F1,9 = 1.02, P = 0.76) and no repetition effect (F1,9 = 0.00, P = 0.94).
Crucially, tones were presented in pairs, with the second tone always being a repetition of the previous sound frequency.
