Tools for the transcription of Portuguese prosody
Tonal representation
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The P-ToBI inventory contains 5 boundary tones: 3 monotonal: L%, H% and !H% 2 bitonal: LH%, and HL% You can click on the representation to view and listen the examples at right. Portuguese varieties make a more restricted use of contrastive tonal boundaries, when compared to other Romance languages/varieties. Occasional instances of an initial Intonational Phrase boundary tone (%H), usually in complementary distribution with another kind of initial peak (e.g., H*) have been described, for example, in SEP. In BP, a low tonal boundary may optionally mark the right edge of an early focus constituent (L-). |
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 L% |
 H% |
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 !H% |
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 LH% |
 HL% |
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