Sentence examples for dipping tone from inspiring English sources

The correspondence between the diacritics and tone letters is only approximate; for example, diacritics only indicate generic peaking or dipping tones, while the tone letters can convey fine phonetic detail, with over a hundred peaking and hundred dipping tone contours that correspond to these two diacritics, or even approximately to the six rising and falling diacritics.

The third tone is a dipping tone.

The third tone is a dipping tone.The pitch goes from middle to low to high, like when you say the letter "B".

For the Mandarin tones, the falling tone (51) was classed as "falling"; the rising (35) and dipping (214) tones as "rising"; and the remaining tone, level (55), as "level".

When tones were presented in sentence form to English and French speakers, and using slightly different categories, level (55) and dipping (214) tones were perceived predominantly as statements, rising (35) tones as questions, and falling (51) tones as statements for English speakers but as exclamations for French speakers (So & Best, 2011, 2014).

The first syllable again is a rising tone while the last one is a "dip" tone.

The first syllable is a rising tone (it starts low and ends high), while the second is a "dip" tone — its pitch dips in the middle.[6].

The Thai rising (315) tone also appeared to provide a challenge for the Mandarin participants in terms of choosing between Mandarin rising (35) and dipping (214) tones, although the former was the predominant category chosen (at <55%%).

However, like Cantonese listeners, they also had difficulty categorizing the Mandarin dipping (214) tone, and once again, they showed large discrepancies in the UC pairs in the discrimination data.

If you are pale or have a fair skin tone, try dipping the brush into a sheer pressed powder before your blush color.

Nassima Abdelli-Beruh, a speech scientist at Long Island University, authored a study on "vocal fry," which is a deep dip in tone at the end of a sentence.