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    How are tones in Chinese depicted so that the word makes sense and the sentences

    The most common mistake is to think that the tones are, or can be arbitrarily assigned to words in Mandarin. I could try to equate tones in mandarin to intonation and stress in English, but it's just not the same. Tonal languages use tones as a critical component in word meaning, if the tone is...
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