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	Introduction to Tonal Languages
		In order to explain the concept of tone languages, it is necessary to lay down the foundation for understanding with a few terms which are related to the concept.
		In tone languages, those pitch differences are used either to differentiate between word meanings or to convey grammatical distinctions.
		Tone languages can be classified as belonging to one of two categories on the basis of the shape of their pitch phonemes: register tone languages and contour tone languages.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/cultural/language/tonal.html (1480 words)

	Tone (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish words.
		It could be argued either that the tone is incidental to the phonation, in which case Burmese would not be phonemically tonal, or that the phonation is incidental to the tone, in which case it would be considered tonal.
		Tone is frequently an areal rather than a genetic feature: that is, a language may acquire tones through bilingualism if influential neighboring languages are tonal, or if speakers of a tonal language switch to the language in question.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tone_(linguistics) (2850 words)

	Tone (linguistics) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Tone is the use of ((baseball) the throwing of a baseball by a pitcher to a batter) pitch in (A systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols) language to distinguish words.
		When this occurs, tones are equally important and essential as ((linguistics) one of a small set of speech sounds that are distinguished by the speakers of a particular language) phonemes (discrete speech sounds, for example, /t/, or /d/), and they are referred to as tonemes.
		Generally tone in a language is an (additional info and facts about areal) areal, not a genetic, feature: that is, a language tends to, but does not always automatically, acquire tones if many neighboring languages also are tonal.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/to/tone_(linguistics).htm (1711 words)

	Tone language - Simple English Wikipedia
		In a tone language (tonal language), different tones (like in music, but not as many) will change the meaning of the words, even if the pronunciation of the word is the same otherwise.
		Many East Asian languages are tone languages, such as all the Chinese languages, Vietnamese, a small number of Korean dialects.
		Some tones may sound alike to people who do not speak a tone language and are easy to forget.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tone_language (262 words)

	Tonal language
		A tonal language or tone language is one in which changes in pitch lead to changes in word meaning.
		Some language groups that contain tonal languages include Sino-Tibetan (to which the Chinese languages belong), Austro-Asiatic (which include Thai and Vietnamese), the Indo-Aryan (which includes Punjabi), the Bantu languages (most languages in Sub-Saharan Africa are Bantu) and the Khoisan languages.
		These tones can lead to one syllable, "ma" having five meanings, depending on the tone associated with it, so that "ma1 ma0" glosses as "mother", "ma2" as "hemp", "ma3" as "horse", "ma4" as "scold", and "ma0" at the end of a sentence acts as an interrogative particle.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/t/to/tonal_language.shtml (476 words)

	Encyclopedia: Swahili language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		In the classification of African languages, Bantoid is a branch of the Benue-Congo subfamily of the Niger-Congo phylum.
		It is closely related to the Miji Kenda group of languages, Pokomo, Ngazija, etc. Over a thousand years of intense and varied interaction with the Middle East, Arabia, Persia, India, and China has given Swahili a rich infusion of loanwords from a wide assortment of languages.
		Kingozi: Is a special case as it was the language of the inhabitants of the ancient town of "Ngozi" and is perhaps the basis of the Swahili language.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Swahili-language (4281 words)

	ipedia.com: Tonal language Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Some language groups that contain tonal languages include Sino-Tibetan (to which Chinese belongs: many Chinese dialects are tonal), Austro-Asiatic (which includes Vietnamese), the Indo-European (which includes Punjabi), the Bantu languages (most languages in Sub-Saharan Africa are Bantu) and the Khoisan languages.
		In tonal languages, the tone is an integral part of a word; minimal pairs exist in the language distinguished only by a change of tone.
		These tones can lead to one syllable, "ma" having five meanings, depending on the tone associated with it, so that "ma1 ma5" glosses as "mother", "ma2" as "hemp", "ma3" as "horse", "ma4" as "scold", and "ma5" at the end of a sentence acts as an interrogative particle.
	www.ipedia.com /tonal_language.html (625 words)

	Chemistry - Tone (linguistics)
		Navajo and the other Apache languages; Athabaskan languages are often included into a larger Na-Dene family, but the reality of Na-Dene especially regarding Haida and Tlingit has been questioned; and many native language families of the Americas.
		Austronesian languages are generally non-tonal: Malay-Indonesian, Javanese, Balinese, Cham — the language of Indianized kingdom of Champa in southern Vietnam, Malagasy and the Polynesian languages such as Fijian, Hawaiian, Maori, Samoan, Pascuan, etc. which are the best known Austronesian languages, are all non-tonal.
		Panjabi is a true tone language where the tones arose as a reinterpretation of a consonant series in terms of pitch.
	www.chemistrydaily.com /chemistry/Tonal_language (1519 words)

	ASA 148th Meeting Lay Language Papers -Perfect Pitch in Tone Language Speakers Carries Over to Music
		In tone languages, words get their meaning in part from the pitches in which the vowels are pronounced.
		We hypothesize that, for speakers of tone languages, the acquisition of absolute pitch during musical training is analogous to learning the tones of a second language.
		Speakers of nontone languages such as English, who do not have the opportunity to associate pitches with meaningful words in infancy, are therefore at a disadvantage for the acquisition of absolute pitch, compared with speakers of tone languages such as Mandarin.
	www.aip.org /148th/deutsch.html (1741 words)

	How Parkinson’s Disease Affects Tone Language and Tells Us about Tone Comprehension
		A tone language is a language that uses pitch to signal meaning at the word level.
		Cantonese is a tone language spoken primarily in Hong Kong and the nearby southeastern Chinese cities.
		From this study, we know that the size of the tonal space (the pitch range where the tones fall) and the context-target pitch distance (the pitch distance between the precursor sentence and the tone in question) are two factors related to tone language speakers’ ability to understand tone.
	www.acoustics.org /press/137th/wong.html (1061 words)

	Tone language translates to perfect pitch
		Tone languages — Mandarin and Vietnamese, among many others — are those in which words take on entirely different meanings depending on the tones in which they are enunciated.
		In Mandarin, for example, the word "ma" means "mother" when spoken in the first tone, "hemp" when spoken in the second tone, "horse" in the third and a reproach in the fourth.
		Tone appears to be analogous to vowel quality and other linguistic features acquired during infancy.
	www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2004-11/uoc--tlt110804.php (920 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - tone language
		Tone, in music, sound that has a definite pitch, as distinct from noise, which is sound that lacks identifiable pitch.
		Language, the principal means used by human beings to communicate with one another.
		Language is primarily spoken, although it can be transferred to...
	encarta.msn.com /tone+language.html (198 words)

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		Intonational melodies may cause lexical tones to vary in shape, as is the case in Thai (Luksaneeyanawin 1993), while polar question intonation in Hausa neutralises the contrast between lexical H and HL (Inkelas and Leben 1990).
		Among these are transcription of tone and intonation, particularly with a view to corpus annotation, intonation and tone in speech technology, functional aspects of intonation contours, universal and language-specific aspects of intonational meaning, and tone and intonation in language contact and language learning.
		The phonology of tone and intonation in the Dutch dialect of Venlo.
	www.let.kun.nl /tie/application.htm (5352 words)

	Ring Tone Transfer Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was developed by Nokia to be used to transfer cellphone ringtones.
		This corresponds with the inability of cellphones to reproduce certain tones audibly.
		These octaves are numbered from lowest pitch to highest pitch from 5 to 8.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ring_Tone_Transfer_Language (283 words)

	Language Information - Language
		The development of literacy by English language learners (ELLs) includes all of the challenges implicit for English speaking children literacy attainments, and is additionally compounded by a diversity of linguistic, cognitive and academic variables.
		In my experience of language teaching, it can even be counter-productive if your students know that you speak their language well, because they may be too easily tempted to speak to you in Greek when they find it hard going.
		Working in a language school for a few months is a good way to meet students and advertise the fact that you do private English lessons, on a one-to-one basis.
	language.calcuisine.com (3213 words)

	Thai Language \| Understanding Tone
		Thai language is the most beautiful of languages, and this due primarily to the use of tone.
		And that it is possible to have various tones depending upon the absence or presence of any of the other three factors in determining tone.
		Tone marks are written above the right side of the initial consonant of a syllable.
	www.alphasoft.cc /thai_v2/tone_form.htm (648 words)

	Drought question...
		If the language in question is tonal, unless the writing system of the language makes no representations of the sounds of the language at all (purely logographic), we should expect to find some kind of indication of tone in the writing of the language.
		Lexical tone seems to develop out of final stop consonants (but in order to see why, you'll need to know something of the acoustic phonetics of consonants and vowels), so tone is a typological property, not genetic and only weakly areal, and is liable to be found anywhere in the world.
		A tone (or a stress) is a property of a syllable, not of any particular segment (though presumably it's easer to hear on the vowel than on the consonant(s)).
	oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/2001/v2001.n080 (4742 words)

	Transparent Language Chinese Proficiency Test
		Transparent Language has provided this Chinese test as an opportunity for people who are learning Chinese to test their level of proficiency in the Chinese language.
		Instead, this proficiency test is intended to measure your command of the Chinese language regardless of your Chinese language learning background.
		Transparent Language is solely responsible for the test content.
	www.learn-chinese-language-software.com /proftest/tlchitest.htm (355 words)

	Language - Education
		Language Learning Express, or Lex for short, is a language learning tool where you, as a learner, use material that interests you as a starting point for language learning.
		It is developed to accelerate studying of foreign languages.
		Language lessons are arranged after own's need or imported directly from the Internet.
	www.programurl.com /education-language-1.htm (1020 words)

	Thai Language Tone Formula
		The character 'Mai Ehg' is one of four tone marks.
		The character 'Mai Toh' is one of four tone marks.
		The character 'Mai Dtree' is one of four tone marks.
	www.alphasoft.cc /thai_v2/tone.htm (298 words)

	Sheli History
		I was willing to compromise by trying my hand at a pitch-accent language, but a tone language was completely out of the question.
		The language Sheli was born again from my desire to create a tone language.
		Effect on Tone: In words where the final syllable was stressed, the remaining syllable gained a mid tone (unmarked).
	dedalvs.free.fr /sheli/history.html (2254 words)

	Talk:Tone language - Simple English Wikipedia
		If we include swedish, I believe we should include norwegian as well.
		Although A. swedish and norwegian are more of "pitch languages" than "tone languages" and B. examples of pitch changing meaning in swedish and norwegian are actually quite rare.
		Japanese is actually a pitch language, just as swedish and norwegian, although the pitch differs between different dialects, and younger speakers often tend to ignore the pitch, thus giving the language a rather "flat" appearance.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Tone_language (155 words)

	Acoustical Society of America- 138th Meeting Lay Language Papers - Tone Language Speakers Possess Absolute Pitch
		Absolute pitch, or perfect pitch, is defined as the ability to produce or identify the pitch of a tone without reference to an external standard.
		Since pitch is an essential feature in conveying the meaning of words in tone language, our findings lead us to conjecture that the potential for acquiring absolute pitch may be universal, and that it can be realised by the association of pitches with meaningful words very early in life.
		Since all except one of the subjects in the study had received little or no musical training, we conclude that this ability resulted from their early acquisition of tone language, so that they had learned to associate pitches with meaningful words very early in life.
	www.acoustics.org /press/138th/deutsch.htm (1130 words)

	Comment On the Tone, Language, and Imagery Used In Parris’ Parliamentary Sketch Matthew Parris Suggests In His ...
		Below is a short sample of the essay "Comment On the Tone, Language, and Imagery Used In Parris’ Parliamentary Sketch Matthew Parris Suggests In His Times Article, That the Department of Education and Employment, and By Extension, the Whole of the Government, Uses Obscure “Pretty&".
		The language Parris uses sometimes mimics that of those he is commenting on.
		He is mocking the government for both giving itself awards and using obscure language with this phrase.
	www.coursework.info /i/6140.html (410 words)

	Nekomata.se - Entries tagged as language
		But it was more of a dictionary than a learning aid really.
		The tones are used to distinguish one word from another so use the wrong tone and you might be saying a completely different word than you think you are.
		We only have two tones and they are only used in a few words (e.g, anden/anden, tomten/tomten for those who know swedish).
	www.nekomata.se /blog/plugin/tag/language (1079 words)

	Parent's Body and Tone Language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Kids as young as 2 can sense that a parent's tone changes the meaning of her words.
		It may be difficult to listen respectfully and not correct misconceptions, but respect their right to have and express their opinions.
		Many messages children send are communicated nonverbally by their tone of voice, their facial expressions, their energy level, their posture, or changes in their behavior patterns.
	islamic-world.net /parenting/parenting_page/parent_body_and_tone.htm (3392 words)

	Tone Language
		Tone Language creates electronic music that breathes, music with a life of its own.
		Tone Language draws from some of the more pleasant moments of Nacht Plank, but never falls into the dull cliches of worn-out ambient music.
		The glitches and sounds on Patience Is the Key crackle and shift with the warmth of a mid-summer's campfire.
	www.epitonic.com /artists/tonelanguage.html (277 words)

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