| Lemma | tone |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Dik (1989) |
| Titolo | The theory of functional grammar. Part I: the structure of the clause |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | accent (inglese) intonation (inglese) prosodic contour (inglese) toneme (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | The feature of “tone” is confined to so-called “tone languages”. In such languages, each syllable is characterized by an intrinsic “pitch profile”, which in many cases is distinctive for the lexical identity of predicates. These tone differences then play the same role as distinctive differences between segmental phonemes. For that reason, such distinctive tone are called “tonemes”. |