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ton·eme

(tō′nēm)

Any of the phonemes of a tone language by which tone conveys differences in lexical meaning.

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toneme

(ˈtəʊniːm)

(Linguistics) linguistics a phoneme that is distinguished from another phoneme only by its tone

[C20: from tone + -eme]

toˈnemic adj

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ton•eme

(ˈtoʊ nim)

n.

a phoneme in a tone language in which the contrastive feature is tone.

[1920–25]

to•ne′mic, adj.

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Ganza has two phonemic tones or tonemes, high (H) and low (L), both of which can occur as either associated or unassociated (floating) tones in the underlying form.

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Relevant examples of suprasegmentals in the Scandinavian languages include tonemes, stod, and word/sentence stress.

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The four basic tonemes are denoted as (A), (B), (C) and (D).

Rhyme correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic languages: on the example of the finnish -ala and -aja rhymes

However, the tonemes are not shown in my transcriptions.

Genitive marking of subjects in West Pahari

Two basic tonemes are distinguished, namely, a high tone (') and a low tone ('), although more detailed distinctions can be drawn.

Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of formative bigrams *

But how either or both of these differ from his "tonemes," which suddenly put in an appearance on p.

Tibetan

1944, Chronemes and Tonemes. A Contribution to the Theory of Phonemes.--Acta Linguistica IV, 1-10.

Production of short and long Finnish vowels with and without noise masking

1991, Syllable Tonemes in Latvian.--Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences.

Tonal and temporal characteristics of disyllabic words in spontaneous Livonian

1991, Syllable Tonemes in Latvian.--Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, August 19-24, 1991, Aix-en-Provence, France, Volume 2/5, 242-245.

The role of duration ratios and fundamental frequency in spontaneous Livonian

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