| 1. | These tones added to toneless words are called'phrasal tones '.
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| 2. | The toneless syllables between are lower in pitch than the high tones.
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| 3. | This is only found if the first word is toneless.
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| 4. | One shifts between recognizable tones and toneless percussion strokes.
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| 5. | The singers had ceased to press and fall into bouts of toneless shouting.
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| 6. | A toneless word, when in focus, does not appear to rise in pitch.
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| 7. | Mr . Peairs testified in a flat, toneless drawl, breaking into tears several times.
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| 8. | A toneless syllable between a high-tone syllable and another tonic syllable assimilates to that high tone.
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| 9. | To mark the toneless Mandarin syllable " ma ", a centered dot is used :.
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| 10. | He was learning to speak before becoming sick, and now talks with a breathy, somewhat toneless slur.
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