In this article we present a set of arguments in favor of having access to two levels of prosodic representation, broad phonetic and phonological, and the motivations for developing a set of cross-linguistically transparent and consistent labels (e.g., an International Prosodic Alphabet, IPrA) based on the Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) framework and the ToBI notation. Regarding segmental phonology, as well as lexical suprasegmentals (lexical tone and stress), both the use of two levels of representation and the existence of an international phonetic alphabet have proved to be very useful. The same benefits of adopting these conventions are likely to accrue in the study of intonation.

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迈向国际韵律字母表 (IPrA)

在本文中，我们提出了一组论点，支持使用两个级别的韵律表示，即广泛的语音和音位，以及开发一组跨语言透明和一致的标签（例如，国际韵律字母表，IPrA）的动机) 基于 Autosegmental-Metrical (AM) 框架和 ToBI 符号。关于分段音系，以及词汇超分段（词汇声调和重音），两种表示水平的使用和国际音标的存在都被证明是非常有用的。采用这些惯例的同样好处可能会在语调研究中产生。