Exempel på 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.

• The dichotomy between toneless forms and those endowed with tone will play a crucial role in the proposed account of tone and its interactions with foot structure.

• The facts to be presented here demonstrate clearly that, at the lexical level, grouping is a crucial footing principle in toneless forms, while prominence prevails in forms with lexical tone.

• The onset of the trough, on the other hand, is not bound to any particular syllable, and in particular is not bound to the first toneless syllable.

• Traditionally, a bell was melted down by the bell founder when it became cracked and toneless, and was recast as a sound bell.

• Indospheric languages are often toneless and/or highly suffixal.

• Maybe one of the surface high-tone vowels was underlyingly high-toned, while the other was underlyingly toneless.