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tone-bearing units

tone-bearing units is the plural of tone-bearing unit.

Meaning of tone-bearing unit

Noun

tone-bearing unit (plural tone-bearing units)

  1. In autosegmental phonology, a segment, usually a syllable nucleus, which can be associated with a tone.

Questions about tone-bearing units

What is tone-bearing units the plural of?
Tone-bearing units is the plural of tone-bearing unit.

Words near tone-bearing units in the dictionary

  1. tone tags
  2. tone terracing
  3. tone up
  4. tone with
  5. tone-bearing unit
  6. tone-bearing units
  7. tone-deaf
  8. tone-deafly
  9. tone-deafness
  10. tonearm
  11. tonearms

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