The Time Tones

Tone (linguistics) Tone (linguistics) Use of pitch to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning This article is about how pitch is used to distinguish words in some languages. For how pitch is used to relate emotions and attitudes in language, see Intonation (linguistics). For the styles a single speaker switches between, like formal and informal language, see Register (sociolinguistics) or Style (sociolinguistics). Tone is the use of pitch in language to distinguish lexical or grammatical meaning—that is, to distinguish or to inflect words.[1] All oral languages use pitch to express emotional and other para-linguistic information and to convey emphasis, contrast and other such features in what is called intonation, but not all languages use tones to distinguish words or their inflections,…

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