The ends of breath groups are marked by periods, and are notably lower in relative pitch.
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Breath groups end with a general weakening of articulatory force, which is followed by a noticeable interval of silence.
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These accents only appears when the culminative syllable is the last syllable of a breath group, as in this example.
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Margaret's approach to natural language translation at this time was to split a sentence into " breath group " segments.
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This fragment of Wiyot narration consists of two breath groups : the first contains five accent phrases, the second contains just one.
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The grave accent appears only when the culminative syllable is the final syllable of a breath group, which are groups of accent phrases.
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Since each breath group had a unique meaning it could be translated into the target language and the target sentence reconstructed using the translated breath groups.
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Since each breath group had a unique meaning it could be translated into the target language and the target sentence reconstructed using the translated breath groups.
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The first accent phrase of the first breath group, " "'kowa bakt�thohlabiB " "', carries the stress on the fourth syllable.
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Accent phrases towards the end of a breath group follow the same pattern of gradual lengthening and pitch increase, though the relative pitch is lower with respect to the preceding accent phrases.
