元となった辞書の項目
tone terracing
名詞
不可算名詞
(phonetics)
A
form
of
downdrift
in
which
the
high
or
mid
tones,
but
not
the
low
tone,
shift
downward
in
pitch
after
certain
other
tones.
The
result
is
that
a
tone
may
be
realized
at
a
certain
pitch
over
a
short
stretch
of
speech,
shifts
downward
and
then
continues
at
its
new
level,
then
shifts
downward
again,
until
the
end
of
the
prosodic
contour
is
reached,
at
which
point
the
pitch
resets.
日本語の意味
音声学において、「tone terracing」は、高音や中音が、特定の条件下で段階的に下がっていく現象を指します。つまり、発話の短い範囲内で一定の音高で発音され、その後に音高が低下し、新たな音高のまま続き、さらに下がるという現象が繰り返され、最終的にプロソディックな区間の終わりでリセットされるという現象です。
意味（1）
(phonetics)
A
form
of
downdrift
in
which
the
high
or
mid
tones,
but
not
the
low
tone,
shift
downward
in
pitch
after
certain
other
tones.
The
result
is
that
a
tone
may
be
realized
at
a
certain
pitch
over
a
short
stretch
of
speech,
shifts
downward
and
then
continues
at
its
new
level,
then
shifts
downward
again,
until
the
end
of
the
prosodic
contour
is
reached,
at
which
point
the
pitch
resets.
