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

ANSWER: tones [accept floating tones; accept Chao tone letters; accept tone sandhi; accept tone terracing]
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