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Toneme

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Toneme 

in linguistics, a feature of pitch that is linguistically significant, that is, that can distinguish otherwise identical lexical and grammatical forms. A toneme is the smallest tonal unit of a suprasegmental level to which the concepts of phoneme and morpheme correspond on other levels. Both the toneme and phoneme constitute an aggregate of distinctive features associated with pitch and intonation. In descriptive linguistics a toneme is also called a tonal phoneme.
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However, the tonemes are not shown in my transcriptions.
Genitive marking of subjects in West Pahari by Zoller, Claus Peter / Acta Orientalia
Two basic tonemes are distinguished, namely, a high tone (') and a low tone ('), although more detailed distinctions can be drawn.
Locative trigrams in Northern Sotho, preceded by analyses of ... by de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice; Taljard, Elsabe / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
1) This toneme pitch movement is similar to the nuclear pitch accent and boundary tones in the autosegmental metrical (AM) theory of intonation.
Is there a Spanish imperative intonation revisited: local ... by Willis, Erik W. / Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
 
 
 
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