Examples of the most common tunes in the IViE corpus (read sentences)

These audio clips accompany the diagrams in the fact sheet, "Intonational Variation in English", which can be downloaded from here.

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Falling	Newcastle female	We^\_{were in}ye^\_llow.
	Cambridge male	_{May I}lean^\_{on the}rai^\_lings?
	Leeds female	We^\_{live in}E^\a_ling.
	London female	_{We ar}ri^\ved_{in a}li^\_mo.

Fall+Rising	Belfast female	^May\ I lean on the _rai^/lings?
	Belfast male	You re^mem\bered the _li/lies?
	Bradford female	^Why\ are we in a _li/mo?
	Newcastle male	We ^li\ve in _Ea^/ling?

(with two rises)	Belfast female	^A\re you growing _li^/mes,_{or le}^/mons?
	Belfast male	We ar_ri^/ved in a _li^/mo.
	Belfast male	^May\ I _lea^/n on the _rai^/lings?