“Floating” examples of these things include the definite article in the Bambara language. The loss of murmured consonants has led to the development of these things (10[2])in Punjabi, (10[6])one of the only (10[2])Indo-European (10[2])languages (10[3])to use them. (10[1])The (-5[1])English-derived (10[1])Krio (10[1])developed these features through contact with sub-Saharan African languages, (10[1]-5[1])which tend to use these features. (10[1]-5[2])Variations in these features (10[2])are described by downdrift, (10[1]-5[1])one (10[1])example of which (10[2])is their namesake “terracing.” (10[1])An orthographic (-5[1])system (10[1])devised by Chao (10[2])uses (10[1])reversed characters to indicate (10[1])sandhi (10[2])like the “3-3 rule.” (10[1]-5[1])An acute accent represents the first, or rising, (10[3])one (10[2])of these (10[1])things (10[5])in (10[2])Pinyin. (10[7]-5[2])For 10 points, name these linguistic features that use pitch to (10[1])distinguish (-5[1])meaning. (10[1])■END■ (10[8]0[2])