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Tones and Word Accents

level extra high (55) _T or _1 e e_T or e_1
level high (44) _H or _2 e e_H or e_2
level mid (33) _M or _3 e e_M or e_3
level low (22) _L or _4 e e_L or e_4
level extra low (11) _B or _5 e e_B or e_5
downstep !
upstep ^
contour, rising (15) _R or _/ or _L_H e e_R , e_/ , e_L_H
contour, falling (51) _F or _tex2html_wrap_inline110 or _H_L e e_F , e_tex2html_wrap_inline110, e_H_L
contour, high rising (45) _H_T e e_H_T
contour, low rising (12) _B_L e e_B_L
contour, rising-falling (454) _R_F or _/_tex2html_wrap_inline110 or _M_H_L e e_R_F , e_/_ or e_M_H_Ltex2html_wrap_inline110
global rise <R> or </>
global fall <F> or <tex2html_wrap_inline110>

NB: Instead of being written as diacritics with _ , all prosodic marks can alternatively be placed in a separate tier, set off by <> , as recommended for global rise and global fall.

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Dafydd Gibbon, Wed Aug 9 11:26:42 CEST 2000