Basic noun gender suffixes, imperfective verb suffixes, the causative verb suffix g followed by a vowel, and the intransitive verb prefix N-are considered toneless.
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Early symptoms include rhinorrhea ( runny nose ), epistaxis ( nosebleed ), toneless voice, sneezing, barking cough, and dyspnea ( in smokers and asthmatics ).
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In linguistics, a schwa is an unstressed and toneless neutral vowel sound in any language, often but not necessarily a mid-central vowel ( rounded or unrounded ).
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Although words like " ekitabo " are theoretically toneless, they are generally subject to a tone-raising rule whereby all but the first mora acquire a high tone.
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Tanacross and Upper Tanana share a high degree of mutual intelligibility, though the tonal patterns ( with the exception of the Tetlin dialect, which is apparently toneless ) are reversed.
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Woffinden continued : " George's vocals are tiresome, his voice, nasal and toneless, seems to be slowing down the song; the lyrics are straightforward and dull.
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When the preceding syllable is high but the following is toneless, the medial toneless syllable adopts a high-tone onset from the preceding syllable, resulting in a falling tone contour.
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When the preceding syllable is high but the following is toneless, the medial toneless syllable adopts a high-tone onset from the preceding syllable, resulting in a falling tone contour.
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The same obvious incapacitation of the leader, the same omnipotence of those who prop up his Kremlin bureaucracy, the same dissatisfaction among regional leaders, and the same toneless apathy among the disillusioned lower strata.
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The toneless demonstrative " uyo " that man can also acquire a tone and become " �yo ! " with a high pitch to mean that man over there in the distance.
