Click on the appropriate link below to hear the sound file of the current utterance. Click once on a syllable to add ˈ to mark it as accented.  A second click will mark the syllable as the nucleus by underlining it.  A third click will clear the marks. The line segments below can be dragged and dropped onto the text to represent a rough idea of the pitch pattern. Notice that there are several copies of some line segments for you to use.  Mark accent and nucleus BEFORE you construct the pitch contour. You will need to enable Java. With thanks to Dynamic Drive for the drag-drop script.
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