Prosodic Words 

The Prosodic Words (PrWords) Tier is a phonetic transcription using ASCII characters. This tier facilitates the analysis of sandhi (connected speech phenomena, such as segment assimilations and deletions across word boundaries), and fast speech rules, by encoding their outcome. Like all transcriptions, this tier has its limitations, and is not meant to be a substitute for acoustic analysis; rather, it allows annotators to flag instances of sandhi for more detailed acoustic analysis. The PrWords Tier provides information about stress, since this information cannot be deduced from the transliteration in the Words Tier or derived from a dictionary (e.g., as mentioned, content Greek monosyllables, as well as some function words, are normally stressed and pitch accented in speech, but not in orthography; in contrast, disyllabic function words are orthographically accented, but most do not normally carry stress in speech). In this tier, each prosodic word (defined as a sequence of items showing total cohesion) is transcribed as one label.