elocutionists the falling third or when emphatic the falling fifth. It is sometimes called the scolding tone.
"The sixth tone is identical with the second and no words are arranged under it. In other words it is unused and exists in theory only.
"The seventh tone is a guttural downward circumflex. It begins on the key-note of the voice, rises to the pitch of a second with strong emphasis, and descends with thorough stress to about a fifth below. It is long in time.
"The eighth tone is an abrupt termination of the first tone in the same manner as the fourth tone is an abrupt termination of the third. It is short in time, and ends more abruptly than the fourth tone.
The following diagrams show on the musical staff the approximate pitch and length of the tones. The middle line is designed to represent the key-note of the speaker's voice:
When two or more words are closely connected as in compound names or terms, the tone of the first word of the term or phrase may be radically changed by this fact. The only exception to this rule seems to be that when the following word is a mere suffix or unimportant word the leading word usually retains its original tone unmodified.
The first tone when it appears as the first character in a combination is usually spoken with a strongly marked accent.
The second tone (leading) has the peculiar inflection noticed above in the description of tones.
The third tone (leading) cannot be distinguished from the first tone leading.
The fourth tone (leading) when ending in h has the quality of the first tone leading; when ending in k it has the quality of the second tone leading.
The fifth tone (leading) is spoken in a low or depressed tone of the voice without marked emphasis. This "suppressed fifth" requires special attention as it is in marked contrast to the emphatic full form of the fifth tone.
The seventh tone (leading) like the third tone (leading) is pronounced exactly like the first tone (leading).
The eighth tone (leading) is pronounced in Foochow like the fifth tone (leading). In some country districts it is emphasized and pronounced like the first tone (leading).
