10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONELESSNESS»
Discover the use of
tonelessness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tonelessness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Aspects of Tone and Voice in Phuthi
In other words, I have set about eliminating tonelessness as a phonological
necessity in this grammar. I have pursued this conflation possibility not only
because a two-tone phonology would be symmetrical and more coherent as a
southern ...
Simon Scurr Donnelly,
2007
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Ihafa: A Journal of African Studies
A Journal of African Studies. Tonelessness' and Yoruba' Tone Ben Akintunde
Oyetade * Introduction 'Tonelessness' is one of the recent terminologies often
used in the analyses of tonal systems. This term is now gaining currency with
recent ...
3
Nations of Nothing But Poetry : Modernism, Transnationalism, ...
The problem that Roach faces, then, is not one of alienation from precolonial
culture: that culture is present to him, albeit in occulted form. He faces, instead, a
problem of sameness—of “repetition,” “tonelessness,” and “social monotony”—
that ...
Matthew Hart Assistant Professor Columbia University,
2010
Tone just wants in tonelessness to swim entertaining toneless thoughts —
pasture, surface, blur — and leaving the radio on somewhere between stations,
toneless and breathless and breathing deeply beyond all talk of talk in the dream
where ...
5
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire
The tonelessness with which Stevens recounts the disastrous events around him
is meant to reflect his own sense of inevitable and repetitive human fate. And yet
tonelessness is the ultimate lyric risk. The reader who can penetrate irony, ...
Helen Hennessy Vendler,
1984
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Early Modern Beckett/Beckett et le début de l’ère moderne: ...
TENSIONS OF THE IN-BETWEEN: Rhythm, Tonelessness and Lyricism in Fin de
partie/Endgame Karine Germoni and Pascale Sardin This paper is a stylistic and
genetic analysis of Fin de parties/Endgame envisaged through the paradigm of ...
Angela Moorjani, Danièle de Ruyter, Dúnlaith Bird,
2012
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T.S. Eliot and Prejudice
Given all these pitfalls, a willed tonelessness comes to have its attractions. But
this can so easily play into the hands of a class or a culture. Tonelessness is
often itself an activity of tone, as one may have an expressionless expression on
one's ...
The fact that true narcolepsy is of "unknown" etiology is not so significant as is the
fact that attacks of sleep and of muscular tonelessness are its chief, if not its only,
symptoms. True narcolepsy is less likely to be followed by recovery, and the ...
9
Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker
This is the portrait of a musician whose singular artistry and mystique has never lost the power to enchant and seduce.
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Studies in African Linguistics
In this view, low tones are limited to the role of providing default tonal
specification to single-mora gaps of tonelessness left by the Phrasal H-Spread
rule (which is constrained so as not to spread an H to moras adjacent to any H-
linked moras).
6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONELESSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
tonelessness is used in the context of the following news items.
Testament of Youth — film review
Vikander has a beautiful, melancholy face and a goodish English accent betrayed only by its tonelessness. But the whole film is toneless. It throws its Jingo ... «Financial Times, Jan 15»
News Organizations Finally Realize Obama's War Plan Is a Hot Mess
The New York Times, in particular, calls bullshit this morning — albeit without breaking from the classic detached Timesian tonelessness. Mark Mazzetti, Eric ... «The Intercept - First Look Media, Sep 14»
Uprising in Sudan: What we know now
This banality and tonelessness sadly is of a piece with the Radio France Internationale interview given today by U.S. special envoy Donald Booth, who when ... «Sudan Tribune, Sep 13»
Emoticons At Work: Unprofessional Or Necessary Evil?
We try to combat the tonelessness of email by doing things like using multiple exclamation points and even throwing in the occasional emoticon. But do these ... «Huffington Post, Oct 11»
A birthday to remember, writes 60 minutes reporter Liam Bartlett
What I am sure of is the tears in her eyes as she looked me straight in the face and, in that dead-pan tonelessness that only a gravely ill patient can deliver, said: ... «PerthNow, Mar 10»
Dept. Of Potentially Sacrilegious Stunts
I prefer her vocal tics to GaGa's faux-brassy tonelessness in every way. raihala. I'm so upset, I don't think I'm going to be able to sleep tonight. ObtuseIntolerant. «Idolator: All About The Music, Feb 09»