1 (also sound) In acoustic phonetics, term for occurrence of sounds with simple, period waves. 2 (also intonation2) Phenomena of pitch that refer to morphologically defined segments (morphs, words) to the extent that different pitches in a language are...

Study of the tonal structure of linguistic expressions which in some languages (e.g. Vietnamese, Chinese) has the same affect on meaning as phonological, syllabic, and accent features. Fromkin, V.A. (ed.) 1978. Tone: a linguistic survey. New York....

n. The phonological study of tones. Adj....

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Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish words. All languages use intonation to express emphasis, contrast, emotion, or other such elements, but not every language uses tone to distinguish lexical meaning. When this occurs, tones are phonemes...