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English

Pronunciation


Adjective

  1. of, or related to tones or tonality
  2. employing tones that have a predictable relationship to some tonic
  3. employing differences in pitch to distinguish differences in the meaning of otherwise similar words


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fr:tonal io:tonal pl:tonal ru:tonal fi:tonal vi:tonal

WordNet tonal
adj 1: employing variations in pitch to distinguish meanings of
otherwise similar words; "Chinese is a tonal language"
[syn: tonic]
2: having tonality; i.e. tones and chords organized in relation
to one tone such as a keynote or tonic [ant: atonal]
Moby Dictionary
accented , alveolar , apical , apico-alveolar , apico-dental ,
articulated , assimilated , back , barytone , bilabial , broad ,
cacuminal , central , cerebral , checked , chromatic , close , consonant ,
consonantal , continuant , dental , dissimilated , dorsal , droning ,
enharmonic , flat , front , glide , glossal , glottal , guttural , hard ,
heavy , high , intonated , labial , labiodental , labiovelar , lateral ,
lax , light , lingual , liquid , low , mid , monophthongal , monotone ,
monotonic , muted , narrow , nasal , nasalized , occlusive , open ,
oxytone , palatal , palatalized , pharyngeal , pharyngealized ,
phonemic , phonetic , phonic , pitch , pitched , posttonic , retroflex ,
rounded , semitonic , semivowel , soft , sonant , soniferous , sonorous ,
sounded , sounding , stopped , stressed , strong , surd , syllabic ,
tense , thick , throaty , toneless , tonic , twangy , unaccented ,
unrounded , unstressed , velar , vocalic , vocoid , voiced , voiceless ,
vowel , vowellike , weak , wide


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