English Dictionary

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。

Field linguists identified tone terracing in the recordings, where high and mid tones drop in pitch after certain tones and then continue at the new level until the prosodic contour resets.

現地の言語学者たちは録音で音高の段階的低下を確認した。そこでは高音や中音（低音は含まない）が特定の音の後にピッチを下げて新しい水準で続き、韻律的輪郭がリセットされるまでその高さを保つ。

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.