| Lemma | high tone |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1921) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | case suffix (inglese) falling tone (inglese) language (inglese) low tone (inglese) pitch alternation (inglese) reduplication (inglese) suffix (inglese) syllable (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | [...] pitch variations are phonetically essential to the language [...] as in classical Greek (e.g., 'lab-on' 'having taken' with a simple or high tone on the suffixed participial ' -on', 'gunaik-on' 'of women' with a compound or falling tone on the case suffix '-on') [...] In Ewe [...] there are formed from 'subo' 'to serve' two reduplicated forms, an infinitive 'subosubo' 'to serve,' with a low tone on the first two syllables and a high one on the last two [...] |