The pitch of the drum is varied to mimic the tone patterns of speech.

The tone pattern of one line must be the inverse of the other.

The tone pattern of Japanese: An autosegmental theory of tonology.

By this point, poetry was being composed according to regulated tone patterns.

For example, in trisyllabic words, there are four possible tone patterns:

The cardinal numbers without tonal marking are presented below; where possible, the tone pattern is added based on the list in Rapp.

Historically, these are presumably due to vowel elision, as evidenced by records from the early 20th century and also by tone patterns.

Zulu nouns have four principal tone patterns, while verbs have two.

The tone pattern told him the communication was personal, rather than ISI-related.

The talking drums of Africa are used to imitate the tone patterns of spoken language.