Pitch and Tone

Objectives:
• After the discussion the students will be able to
understand the pitch and tone
• Also, they will able to know the significance
of learning pitch and tone in a language
 Pitch
-the relative highness or lowness
frequency of a sound
-pitch are sounds that languages use to
convey meaning
 What is
FREQUENCY?
 FREQUENCY?
• It is the number of cycle (a single to-and-
fro movement of an air particle) that occur
in a second.
• measured by unit Hz(Herzt) after the name
of Heinrich Rudolf ,a German physicist.
Here is one example of language that distinguish a word form
another by it's pitch
 Tone
• Tone is the variation of pitch of the voice while speaking
• It uses pitch to change the lexical meaning of a word
• refers to the use of pitch to convey meaning at the word
level.
 #2

I hate his
Two types of Tone brown
languages eyes
They're very hypnotizing.
1.) Level Tone
• the pitches are relatively steady

2.)Contour Tone
• The pitch changes during the course of
the syllable
Example of language that has level tone:
Yoruba
Example of language that has contour tone:
Chinese Mandarin
 Andrew Radford, M. A. (2009). Linguistic An Introduction second edition.
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https://owlcation.com/humanities/Pitch-Definition-And-Examples-Of-Pitch-In-Englis
h-Pronunciation
https://www.britannica.com/topic/language/Lexical-meaning
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tone%20language