{"id":2648,"date":"2011-09-14T11:55:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T10:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2648"},"modified":"2011-10-05T21:30:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T20:30:24","slug":"floating-tone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2648","title":{"rendered":":Floating tone:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=881\">lexical tone<\/a> language, a tone which is not initially associated with a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1066\">syllable<\/a>, but which attaches itself to a neighbouring syllable or causes <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=1251\">downstep<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2691\">upstep<\/a> of a neighbouring tone. An example from Bambara (Mali): the definite article is a floating low tone.  This attaches itself to a preceding noun, and if this has a high tone, this is turned into a falling (HL) tone. <em>ba<\/em> with high tone means &#8220;river&#8221;, but with a falling tone it means &#8220;the river&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> H&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;L&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;H&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;L<br \/>\n&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\u2192&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;|&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\/<br \/>\nba (def.)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;ba<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a lexical tone language, a tone which is not initially associated with a syllable, but which attaches itself to a neighbouring syllable or causes downstep or upstep of a neighbouring tone. An example from Bambara (Mali): the definite article &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/?page_id=2648\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":174,"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\/2648"}],"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=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":45,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3721,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2648\/revisions\/3721"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogjam.name\/sid\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}