Sentence examples for tone languages from inspiring English sources

Unlike some members of the Afro-Asiatic phylum, Berber languages are not tone languages.

In speech, pitch conveys prosody in most languages and lexical information in tone languages, such as Mandarin.

There is relatively little research on other types of phonetic segments, such as lexical tone, even though tone languages are very well represented across languages of the world.

This may be particularly challenging in tone languages as learners have to develop tone representations in the face of intonational variation in order to accurately recognize words.

All these languages are tone languages and use the same four basic clicks, symbolized |, ǁ, !, and ǂ; the Southern group is unique in its use of a fifth, the bilabial or "kiss click," symbolized ʘ.

Languages of this area are characterized by pronounced high and low pitch tones (tone languages), a quality exploited when two drums a lower-pitched, or male, drum and a higher-pitched, or female, one transmit low and high tones, respectively.

Its tone, language, and story belong to children's literature.

Unlike many languages of Southeast Asia, Khmer (Cambodian) is not a tone language.

Navajo is a tone language, meaning that pitch helps distinguish words.

Like most languages spoken south of the Sahara, Twi is a tone language.

Pfordresher, P. Q. & Brown, S. Enhanced production and perception of musical pitch in tone language speakers.