Lóngyóu tones and tone sandhi by Chen, Sherry Yong, Kenstowicz, Michael J.

“…This paper is a descriptive and analytic study of the tones and tone sandhi of the Southern Wu dialect of Lóngyóu (龙游), a city of c. 400,000 inhabitants located about 375 km southwest of Shanghai in Western Zhejiang Province, China. …”
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Study of Mandarin Chinese tones recognition by Ge, Liang.

“…In this dissertation, the Mandarin tones are recognized and represented graphically by using wavelet transform and fundamental frequency estimation methods. …”
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Is a high tone pointy? Speakers of different languages match Mandarin Chinese tones to visual shapes differently by Shang, Nan, Styles, Suzy J.

“…Across both studies, we replicated the previously observed ‘u-curvy, i-pointy’ sound/shape cross-modal correspondence in all groups. However, Tones were mapped differently by people with different language backgrounds: speakers of Mandarin Chinese classified as Chinese-dominant systematically matched Tone 1 (high, steady) to the curvy shape and Tone 4 (falling) to the pointy shape, while English speakers with no knowledge of Chinese preferred to match Tone 1 (high, steady) to the pointy shape and Tone 3 (low, dipping) to the curvy shape. …”
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Tone in PaTani and Central Tibetan: parallel developments? by Saxena, Anju

“…Sharma 1989) Identify it as a tone language. To quote D. Sharma: The glottal fricative /h/ tends to be realized as high falling tone in a prepausal position, as in /meh/ = /me/. …”
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Effect of electronic word-of-mouth (EWOM) message tone on brand attitude. by Goh, Pei Yong., Goh, Michelle Shu Zhen., Lin, Danqing.

“…Responses were compared between those who read the blog with a formal tone with those who read the blog with an informal tone. …”
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BLIQUE-TMI : blind quality evaluator for tone-mapped images based on local and global feature analyses by Jiang, Qiuping, Shao, Feng, Lin, Weisi, Jiang, Gangyi

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Effects of music attrition on English-Mandarin Chinese bilinguals’ lexical tone perception and production in a foreign language by Toh, Xin Ru

“…To examine whether cognitive mechanisms for music and speech are domain-general or domain-specific, researchers have studied the effects of musical training on lexical tone pitch processing. However, few studies have studied the effects in the long-term and among tone language speakers. …”
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Performance study of FFH/BFSK system with product-combining receiver over multi-tone jamming and AWGN channels by Hong, Tse Min.

“…In this dissertation, the performance of a fast frequency-hopped binary frequency-shift keying (FFH/BFSK) spread spectrum (SS) communication system that employs a product-combining receiver in the presence of multi-tone jamming (MTJ) and additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) conditions over a non-fading channel is studied.…”
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Tonal reassociation and rising tonal contours in Naxi by Michaud, Alexis

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Investigation of the effects of self-myofascial release combined with static stretching on muscle parameters representing tone, elasticity and stiffness using the MyotonPRO by Tan, Dominic Swee Pin

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Impact of peer review on reports of randomised trials published in open peer review journals : retrospective before and after study by Hopewell, S, Collins, G, Boutron, I, Yu, L, Cook, J, Shanyinde, M, Wharton, R, Shamseer, L, Altman, D

“…Most changes requested by peer reviewers had a positive impact on the reporting of the final manuscript--for example, adding or clarifying randomisation and blinding (n=27), sample size (n=15), primary and secondary outcomes (n=16), results for primary or secondary outcomes (n=14), and toning down conclusions to reflect the results (n=27). …”

The Singapore bicentennial : the benefits and burdens of the past by Tham, Ki Yee

“…However, during the commemoration, the narrative of Singapore’s history was projected back to the 14th century and the events and activities of the Singapore Bicentennial shone light onto Singapore’s 700-year history instead of its 200-year history. …”
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Demystifying the diagnostic potentials of air-conducted ocular and cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential test elicited by a custom-built chirp stimulus among patients with... by Abdallatif, Athar Mazen Rasmi

“…VEMP is typically recorded with the 500 Hz tone burst, however, a chirp stimulus, initially designed for auditory brainstem responses, is being used to explore VEMP's diagnostic potential. …”
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Audio-based approaches in tuning retrieval of gamelan ensemble by Hamdan, Sinin

“…When listening to its tones in a musical environment, individual harmonics of a complex tone and partial identification may be nearly impossible to discern by the human ear. …”
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The impact of environmental disclosure on initial public offering underpricing: sustainable development in Singapore by Kang, Eugene, Lam, Nguyen Bao

“…We provide new evidence that linguistic features, that is, tone and authenticity, interact to influence a key IPO outcome. …”
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Effects of combination of linguistic and musical pitch experience on subcortical pitch encoding by Maggu, Akshay Raj, Wong, Patrick C. M., Antoniou, Mark, Bones, Oliver, Liu, Hanjun, Wong, Francis C. K.

“…We compared musicians and non-musicians who were native speakers of a tone language on subcortical encoding of linguistic and musical pitch. …”
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Media framing reports on Malaysia's Anti-Fake News Law by Wan, Chen

“…The study also found that the attribution of responsibility frame was more susceptible to the positive tone whereas the conflict frame was more susceptible to the negative tone. …”
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BER analysis of FFH/FSK system with self-normalzing receiver over intentional and unintentional interference channels by Toh, Yew Ber.

“…By mean of a numerical search, we obtain the worst-case number of jamming tone, Q, which results in a worst-case BER performance.…”
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Analysing social presence in Whatsapp application using LIWC analysis by Siti Norzaimalina, Abd Majid, Abdul Rahim, Salam

“…However, they used a distanced form of discourse in their messages (authentic). The conversational tone was upbeat style and positive (tone). The first pronoun ‘we’ was used more than “I”. …”
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Investigation into ion channel- and nitric oxide-mediated vasodilation in resistance arteries by Wallis, LE

“…<p>Effective regulation of resistance artery tone is essential in maintaining adequate tissue perfusion across the body. …”