!H% is manifested phonetically as:
- a rising movement to a mid tone target when it occurs after a low tone.
- a mid level plateau when it occurs after a high tone (the mid tone spreads to the left).
It is found in pedagogic enumerations, in obviousness and disapproval statements and in stylized vocatives. In this last case, it is normally accompanied by a lengthening of the last syllable and is realized as a sustained mid tone.
Example: Pedagogic enumeration
Ve en Joan... i després la Bàrbara...
[It comes Joan... then Bàrbara...]
Example: Disapproval statement
(No estic d’acord amb) la Bàrbara...
[(I disapprove of) Bàrbara...]
Example: Insistent vocative
Maria!
[Maria!]
Example: Insistent vocative
Bàrbara!
[Bàrbara!]
