![L+H* !H%](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-01/lphsmmb.gif?itok=NHU8yAgl)
This nuclear configuration is phonetically realized as a rise during the last accented syllable followed by a mid level plateau (the mid tone spreads to the left). In vocatives, the last syllable is lengthened.
It is found in pedagogic enumerations, hesitation statements and stylized vocatives.
Example: Pedagogic enumeration
Ve en Joan... i després la Bàrbara...
[Joan comes... and then Bàrbara...]
![L+H* !H%](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-03/lphsmb_3.png?itok=ghq0F4Ry)
Example: Insistent vocative
Maria!
Maria!
![L+H* M!H%](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-03/lphsmmb_maria_1.png?itok=ZA7VK2be)
Example: Insistent vocative
Bàrbara!
[Bàrbara!]
![L+H* M!H%](/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/2024-03/lphsmmb_barbara_1.png?itok=uo6sZji-)