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Esimerkit

• The prominence of the syllables is more monotone than in English, the intonation of the latter having a larger variation of stressed and unstressed syllables.
• In the formal register, such variation is reduced and the talk has a more monotone, business-like quality.
• The function f(x):=x^3 is monotone while g(x):=x^2 is not.
• When Tima felt like her parents were treating her like a servant, she would speak in monotone and act as though she were a robot.
• It is no very difficult matter to be loud in a high tone of voice; but to be loud and forcible in a low tone, requires great practice and management; this, however, may be facilitated by pronouncing forcibly at firſt in a low monotone; a monotone, though in a low key, and without force, is much more ſonorous and audible than when the voice ſlides up and down at almoſt every word, as it muſt do to be various.