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X-SAMPA code (4)

Suprasegmentals:

primary stress                        " 
secondary stress                      % 
long                                  : 
half-long                             :\ 
extra-short                           _X 
linking mark                          -\

Tones and word accents:

level extra high                      _T 
level high                            _H
level mid                             _M 
level low                             _L 
level extra low                       _B
downstep                              ! 
upstep                                ^ (caret, circumflex)

contour, rising                       _R 
contour, falling                      _F 
contour, high rising                  _H_T 
contour, low rising                   _B_L 

contour, rising-falling               _R_F

(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 the next two symbols.)

global rise                           <R>
global fall                           <F>



Dafydd Gibbon, Sat Oct 17 18:58:17 CEST 1998