{"id":1251,"date":"2011-08-17T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T16:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1251"},"modified":"2011-10-04T13:09:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T12:09:33","slug":"downstep","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1251","title":{"rendered":":Downstep:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A local, stepwise lowering of pitch at specific <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=35\">accents<\/a>. Unlike declination, downstep is not a property of the complete intonation phrase but of each particular accent. The notion of downstep derives from the behaviour observed in African tone languages, where H tones are lowered or downstepped when preceded by a L tone. Thus, whereas in a sequence HH, the two high tones will be scaled at a similar <a href=\" http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1318\">F<sub>0<\/sub><\/a> level, in the sequence HLH, the second H will realised at a lower level than the first H due to the presence of the intervening L tone.<\/p>\n<p>The official IPA notation for downstep is a leading superscript downward arrow: <sup>\u2193<\/sup>H.  When this is not available typographically, a leading superscript exclamation mark is often used: <sup>!<\/sup>H. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Also called <strong>catathesis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A local, stepwise lowering of pitch at specific accents. Unlike declination, downstep is not a property of the complete intonation phrase but of each particular accent. The notion of downstep derives from the behaviour observed in African tone languages, where &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1251\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":170,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1251\/revisions\/3673"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}