Talk:Lexical tone

[T]he same sequence of sounds can have several different meanings depending on the tone in which it is pronounced. Using a more precise terminology we call this phenomenon "lexical tone", to make it clear that tone is part of the lexical identity of words.... Speakers often have no auditory image of the word at all independent of tone, and a mispronunciation of tone can make the word completely unrecognizable.

The article already exists at Tone (linguistics) Pawyilee (talk) 09:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)