Prosodic Markings



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Prosodic Markings

Pauses

Only conspicuous pauses were marked with a single ``.'' indicating the location of the pause.

Emphatic Stress

Emphatic stress is indicated by prepending a ``!'' to the word or syllable which was stressed. This only includes stress which would not normally occur due to lexical and syntactic factors.

Lengthening

Lengthening is transcribed by appending a ``:'' to the lengthened sound. This only includes lengthening which would not normally occur due to lexical and syntactic factors.




Tue Jan 17 18:52:43 GMT 1995