The definite article in Bambara is analyzed as a "floating" example of these linguistic features, which alters the pronunciation of adjacent morphemes but cannot be pronounced in isolation. Interaction between these features in Twi results in their namesake "terracing", a type of downdrift. The ability of this feature to differentiate words is illustrated by the poem "The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den," written by a linguist who invented a method to represent it based on a musical staff. It's not politeness, but a "register" variety of this feature with multiple levels is possessed by most
The definite article in Bambara is analyzed as a "floating" example of these linguistic features, which alters the pronunciation of adjacent morphemes but cannot be pronounced in isolation. Interaction between these features in Twi results in their namesake "terracing", a type of downdrift. The ability of this feature to differentiate words is illustrated by the poem "The Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den," written by a linguist who invented a method to represent it based on a musical staff. It's not politeness, but a "register" variety of this feature with multiple levels is possessed by most (*) Bantu languages, as opposed to its "contour" variety. This feature is indicated by a superscript in Wade- Giles, in contrast to a more common Romanization scheme for the same language, which represents it with four different diacritics; the latter system, which applies to the most widely spoken language to possess this feature, is Pinyin. For 10 points, identify this feature possessed by Cantonese and Mandarin in which pitch is used to distinguish words.
The definite article in Bambara is analyzed as a "floating" example of these linguistic features, which alters the pronunciation of adjacent morphemes but cannot be pronounced in isolation.
tone [accept word forms, like tonality or tonal language; accept pitch until it is read] 