TONEMA Linguistics : derived from TONO; inflection of the voice that is recorded in a melodic unit, which is delimited by the appearance of a discontinuity in the rhythmic pattern of speech. We apply an ascending tonema if the phonic group does not close the communication. On the other hand we use a descending tonema when we want to report the end or termination of a sentence. According to Tomás Navarro, at the end of each phonic group five classes of tonemas can be distinguished.
