Tools for the transcription of Portuguese prosody
Tonal representation
Schematic representation of the stylized contours of pitch accents, boundary tones and nuclear contours, assuming the critical target syllables.


Pitch accents
The stressed syllable is in dark gray.
 
L*
L*+H
(L+)H*
H+L*
H*+L
           
Boundary tones
The boundary syllable is in blue.
 
L%
LH%
!H%
H%
HL%
           
Nuclear contours
The stressed syllable is in dark gray and the boundary syllable is in blue.
 
H+L* L%
H+L* LH%
H+L* H%
H+L* HL%
H*+L L%
 
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L*+H L%
L*+H LH%
L*+H H%
L*+H HL%
(L+)H* L%
 
 
(L+)H* !H%
L* L%
L* LH%
L* HL%
L* H%