Tools for the transcription of Portuguese prosody
Tonal representation
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Portuguese prosodic structure is characterized by right-headed prosodic phrases with which events in the tonal string are related. Across sentence-types and varieties, the nuclear pitch accent occurs at the right edge of the intonational phrase. The exception is sentences with narrow/contrastive focus, that may show an early nucleus. There are 15 commonly occurring nuclear contours, which can be described as a combination of pitch accent and boundary tone. Please click on the representation to view and listen to an annotated example. |
Nuclear contours | |
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 H+L* L% |
 H*+L L% |
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 H+L* H% |
 H+L* LH% |
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 H+L* HL% |
 L*+H L% |
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 L*+H LH% |
 L*+H H% |
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 L*+H HL% |
 (L+)H* L% |
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 (L+)H* !H% |
 L* L% |
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 L* LH% |
 L* HL% |
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 L* H% |
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