| 21. | A child who hears low tones may not be able to hear high tones.
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| 22. | He chants in high tones alternately throaty and nasal.
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| 23. | These syllables are said to have a'high tone '.
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| 24. | Mid tone is the result of downstep of a high tone after a low tone.
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| 25. | Not every word in Chichewa has a high tone.
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| 26. | If there are several high tones in a row, the pitch also tends to rise throughout.
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| 27. | Any high tones on clitics and the prefix spread to the next syllable of the word.
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| 28. | A toneless syllable between a high-tone syllable and another tonic syllable assimilates to that high tone.
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| 29. | Thus, a mark for high tone is all that is needed to write tone in Shanghainese:
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| 30. | The sound of a Timbal varies from a clear well-defined high tone till a strong deep bass.
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