Sentence examples for example tones from inspiring English sources

That is because it is easier for linguists to discover extra features in foreign languages for example tones that change the meaning of words, which are common in Indonesian but do not exist in European languages than to realise that elements which are taken for granted in a linguist's native language may be absent from another.

Mr. Shriver said his sister was also emphatic that Mr. Schwarzenegger not change his personal style to adopt his new career -- to not, for example, tone down a sense of humor that might seem unusual outside Hollywood.

Hence, an impactful advertisement may incorporate a variety of appeal drivers, for example, tone, lighting, message, sound, characters, picture quality, music, and different color combinations.

Further category assimilation studies with a range of tone languages of differing natures for example, African tone languages, which tend to involve grammatical determinants and whose tone inventories mostly comprise level rather than contour tones (Childs, 2003)—will assist in defining the limits of the applicability of the PAM to lexical tone contrasts.

Consider the manner in which the right defends the vision of a "color-blind society," for example, in tones that echo the earnest speech the good-guy lieutenant or hospital administrator or baseball manager was always making in those "problem films" of the 50's.

Kropp-Dakubu's 1980 West African language data sheets vol II contains a few pages on Nafaanra put together in the late seventies by Dean and Carol Jordan, including a phonology, a list of nouns, a list of pronouns, a list of numbers, and some example sentences; tones are not marked.

Davies's official role as head writer and executive producer, or "showrunner", consisted of laying a skeletal plot for the entire series, holding "tone meetings" to correctly identify the tone of an episode, often described in one word for example, the "tone word" for Moffat's "The Empty Child" was "romantic" — and overseeing all aspects of production.

For example, ringer-tone composers are interesting but do not appeal widely to teenagers.

Sony, for example, has toned down its music operations in Hungary because of counterfeiting.

Politicians on all sides should follow Roger Cohen's brave example and tone down the rhetoric, lest the illusion of "existential threats" become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Some gun control advocates regard this as a disastrous example of tone-deaf politics: the war on Big Gulps writ large.