Tone Sandhi

Tone sandhi is a feature of tonal languages in which the tones assigned to individual words vary based on the pronunciation of the words that surround them in a phrase or sentence. It is a type of sandhi, or fusional change, from the Sanskrit word for "joining".

Read more about Tone Sandhi:  Languages With Tone Sandhi, What Is and Is Not Tone Sandhi, Mandarin Chinese

Famous quotes containing the word tone:

    “It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)