Examples of toneless

• Note that toneless forms include an additional candidate which satisfies the constraints proposed here, yet needs to be eliminated.

• Recall that the lexical level is characterised by a bifurcation into forms that are toneless and those that possess tone.

• The tonal processes captured in this section fully preserve the bifurcation of forms into toneless and those endowed with tone.

• The assumption that non-high-toned syllables are toneless, on the other hand, accounts for all these facts without requiring any more assumptions.

• It was argued that features from the surrounding environment spread to underlyingly toneless syllables and featureless vowels.

• We begin with lexically toneless forms.

• The problem is how to decide and ensure that in one context a floating tone/toneless mora results phonetically in a modified level tone and in another context a contour.

• Toneless monosyllabic, and monomoraic, nominal bases exhibit the behaviour typically associated with minimal word requirements.