Isaac Newton (1642-1727) painted in 1689 by Sir Godfrey Kneller
© John Maidment, 2012
blog: http://blogjam.name
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Newton is a resource designed to help you recognise
General British English nuclear tones. The
set of nuclear tones used can be seen in the table below together with the
notation used illustrated on the single syllable NO.
High Fall |
Low Fall |
High Rise |
Low Rise |
Fall-rise |
Rise-fall |
Mid level |
ˋno |
ˎno |
ˊno |
,no |
˅no |
^no |
>no |
Here is what is
available:
Newton has been tested with Microsoft Internet
Explorer 9, Google Chrome (Version 22.0.1229.79 m), Safari (5.1.7), Avant
Ultimate 2012 Build 182, Firefox, and SeaMonkey/2.12.1. The program
uses the HTML5 <audio> tag and is unlikely to work properly in older
browsers.
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