neutral tone (English, noun)
expansion: neutral tone (plural neutral tones)
Senses:
topics: human-sciences
linguistics
phonetics
phonology
sciences
glosses: The lack of one of the four primary phonetic tones of Chinese, sometimes viewed as a tone in its own right. The neutral tone is unmarked in Hanyu Pinyin.
tags: Chinese
Forms:
form: neutral tones
tags: plural