We can distinguish a level tone „ falling tone and a rising tone“. A syllable carrying a tone in a tone- unitis called Tonic syllable.
Other components of the tone- unit are the head, the prehead and the tail. Transcription is characteristic of the english language that the spelling differs from the pronounciation.For instance the sound represented by ee in been but differently represented in key, people, receive, field.This fact is related to the historical development of english. Systems of transcription make use of symbols whose only purpose is to indicate on paper precisely the sound or sounds features into which an utterance has been analyzed. Such transcription whole sole aim is accuracy of phonetic detail called narrow transcriptions to be distinquish from broad transcriptions. An example of a narrow is the International Phonetic Alphabet. / that was devised to provide a precise and universal means of writing down the spoken forms of utteranceas they are spoken without reference to their ortographic representation , grammatical status or meaning.