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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.".
- Floating_tone wikiPageID "3203412".
- Floating_tone wikiPageRevisionID "552574656".
- Floating_tone hasPhotoCollection Floating_tone.
- Floating_tone subject Category:Tonal_languages.
- Floating_tone subject Category:Tone_(linguistics).
- Floating_tone type Abstraction100002137.
- Floating_tone type Communication100033020.
- Floating_tone type Language106282651.
- Floating_tone type NaturalLanguage106904171.
- Floating_tone type TonalLanguages.
- Floating_tone type ToneLanguage106904943.
- 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 m.08z1bd.
- Floating_tone sameAs Q5459937.
- Floating_tone sameAs Q5459937.
- Floating_tone sameAs Floating_tone.
- Floating_tone wasDerivedFrom Floating_tone?oldid=552574656.
- Floating_tone isPrimaryTopicOf Floating_tone.