- into a
falling tone: However, when it
occurs between two high tones, it
downsteps the
following tone: Upstep,
which is less
commonly phonemic. Yip 2002...
- [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])...
- syllable-initial consonant. ⟨ꜛ ꜜ⟩ are
defined in the
Handbook as "upstep" and "
downstep",
concepts from
tonal languages. However, the
upstep symbol can also be...
-
Medumba shows downstep,
where H is
produced at a
lower pitch than an
immediately preceding H tone;
downstep is
represented as (ꜜ).
Downstep is
viewed as...
- [kaꜜ.wa]. A
final [i] or [ɯ] is
often devoiced to [i̥] or [ɯ̥]
after a
downstep and an
unvoiced consonant. The ****anese term is kōtei
akusento (高低アクセント...
-
American Violet as
Darrell Hughes, this year
marked a
significant financial downstep for him,
earning merely $70,000,
opposed by
almost $500,000 one year prior...
- "accent" may be
characterized as a
downstep rather than as
pitch accent. The
pitch of a word
rises until it
reaches a
downstep and then
drops abruptly. In a...
- and
vowels do. In many register-tone languages, low
tones may
cause a
downstep in
following high or mid tones; the
effect is such that even
while the...
- ⟨ꜞ⟩ were
adopted as the
Africanist equivalents of the IPA
characters ⟨ꜜ⟩
downstep and ⟨ꜛ⟩ upstep. The
correspondence of U+A71D ⟨ꜝ⟩ to the IPA
click letter...
-
segments that bear them.
Tonal sandhi processes like tone spread, tone shift,
downstep and
downdrift are
common in
African languages.
Widespread syntactical structures...
