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- Floating_tone abstract "A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants, no vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighboring morphemes.An example occurs in Bambara. Bambara has two phonemic tones, high and low. In this language, the definite article is a floating low tone. With a noun in isolation, it is associated with the preceding vowel, turning a high tone into a falling tone: [bá] river; [bâ] the river. When it occurs between two high tones, it downsteps the following tone:[bá tɛ́] it's not a river[bá tɛ̄] (or [bá ꜜ tɛ́]) it's not the riverAlso common are floating tones associated with a segmental morpheme such as an affix. For example, in Okphela, an Edoid language of Nigeria, the main negative morpheme is distinguished from the present tense morpheme by tone; the present tense morpheme (á-) carries high tone, whereas the negative past morpheme (´a-) imposes a high tone on the syllable which precedes it:oh á-nga he is climbingóh a-nga he didn't climbFloating tones derive historically from morphemes which assimilate or lenite to the point where only their tone remains.".
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- Floating_tone wikiPageRevisionID "643646318".
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Article_(grammar).
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Assimilation_(linguistics).
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Bambara_language.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tonal_languages.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Category:Tone_(linguistics).
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Consonant.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Definite_article.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Downstep.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Downstep_(phonetics).
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Edoid_languages.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Lenition.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Morpheme.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Okphela_language.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Phoneme.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Segment_(linguistics).
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Tone_(linguistics).
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLink Vowel.
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLinkText "Floating tone".
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLinkText "floating low tones".
- Floating_tone wikiPageWikiLinkText "floating tone".
- Floating_tone hasPhotoCollection Floating_tone.
- Floating_tone wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:IPA.
- Floating_tone wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Phonetics-stub.
- Floating_tone wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Sound_change.
- Floating_tone wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Suprasegmentals.
- Floating_tone subject Category:Tonal_languages.
- Floating_tone subject Category:Tone_(linguistics).
- Floating_tone hypernym Morpheme.
- Floating_tone type Language.
- Floating_tone type Language.
- Floating_tone type Phonetic.
- Floating_tone comment "A floating tone is a morpheme or element of a morpheme that contains no consonants, no vowels, but only tone. It cannot be pronounced by itself, but affects the tones of neighboring morphemes.An example occurs in Bambara. Bambara has two phonemic tones, high and low. In this language, the definite article is a floating low tone. With a noun in isolation, it is associated with the preceding vowel, turning a high tone into a falling tone: [bá] river; [bâ] the river.".
- Floating_tone label "Floating tone".
- Floating_tone sameAs Tonenn_distag.
- Floating_tone sameAs m.08z1bd.
- Floating_tone sameAs Q5459937.
- Floating_tone sameAs Q5459937.
- Floating_tone wasDerivedFrom Floating_tone?oldid=643646318.
- Floating_tone isPrimaryTopicOf Floating_tone.