Register (phonology)

Not to be confused with Register complex or Register (sociolinguistics). For other uses, see Register (disambiguation).

In phonology, a register, or pitch register, is a prosodic feature of syllables in certain languages in which tone, vowel phonation, glottalization or similar features depend upon one another.

It occurs in Bai, Burmese, Vietnamese, Wu Chinese and Zulu.

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