Sentence examples for second tone from inspiring English sources
"Yaaay-ooh!" the park ranger yelled, the second tone lower than the first, as he scanned the forest canopy, "yaaay-oh!" The energetic rustle of leaves in a distant tree was the first indication that an orangutan was approaching.
Tones in sequences of syllables that belong together lexically and syntactically ("sandhi groups") may undergo changes known as tonal sandhi, the most important of which causes a third tone before another third tone to be pronounced as a second tone.
"When you hit a tone, it sounds and then it disappears, and if you hit a second tone at the same time they come together and create a new quality.
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.
The second tone reading, however, has another important use.
The tones influence some vowels (notably e and o), which are pronounced more open in third and fourth tones than in first and second tones.
One of the stimulus streams was predictable and consisted of pairs of tones, the second tones of the pairs always being two natural keys higher than the first tones.
While the "Bi" part of "Bishop" is pronounced with fourth tone, first tone "Bi" means, well, "cunt".
Another case of interference results when two tones sounded together produce a subjectively heard third tone.
