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A falling arrow marking falling intonation.
Also known as: Global fall arrow, Falling intonation mark
In the International Phonetic Alphabet a downward-sloping arrow marks a global fall: the pitch of a whole stretch of speech falling, as in the intonation of a statement in many languages.
Marks falling intonation across a stretch of speech rather than a tone on a single syllable.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Describes the intonation of statements in many languages, and pairs with the global rise mark as the two broad intonation contours the alphabet provides.
Contexts: Language and transcription
An arrow sloping downward from upper left to lower right, placed before the stretch of speech it describes.