单词 | rising-falling |
释义 | > as lemmasrising-falling rising-falling adj. designating an intonation consisting of a raising and subsequent lowering of pitch; characterized by such an intonation; cf. rise-fall n. at rise n. Compounds. ΚΠ 1931 G. Noël-Armfield Gen. Phonetics (ed. 4) xiii. 69 These [signs] may be combined to showing falling-rising, rising-falling, and so forth. 1955 Archivum Linguisticum 7 155 The Greek circumflex is not, essentially, a rising-falling accent. 1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics 111 Tones may..rise or fall, or rise and fall, or fall and rise (rising, falling, rising-falling, falling-rising tones, respectively), and be distinguished by the actual direction in which the pitch moves. < as lemmas |
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