| 释义 |
tamber|ˈtæmbə(r)|
Phonetic respelling of timbre n.3, used spec. in Linguistics.
[1920S.P.E. Tract iii. 11 Our English form of the French sound of the word would be approximately tamber; and this would be not only a good English-sounding word like amber and clamber, but would be like our tambour, which is tympanum, which again is timbre.] 1923Ibid. xii. 60 Those enchanting qualities, the rhythm, the phrasing, the tamber, and accent of the living voice. 1937J. R. Firth Tongues of Men iii. 36 In chiming reduplications you get..likeness of repeated articulation with difference of vowel quality or tamber difference—e.g., see-saw. 1950D. Jones Phoneme iii. 12 An alphabetic system of phonetic transcription consists of letters representing sound-qualities (tambers) or phonemes. 1973J. C. Wells Jamaican Pronunc. in London iv. 56 The tamber of nonprevocalic /l/ has been shown only when ‘dark’. Ibid. 130 Chomsky and Halle call this feature ‘tense’ rather than ‘long’, thereby emphasizing the tamber differences. |