Assertion: tone | /r/HasProperty | pitch
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text: 2. tone - (linguistics) a pitch or change in pitch of the voice that serves to distinguish words in tonal languages; "the Beijing dialect uses four tones" pitch - the property of sound that varies with variation in the frequency of vibration linguistics - the scientific study of language
text: Harold Owen bases his list on the qualities of sound: pitch, timbre, intensity, and duration (Owen 2000, 6).