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A single vertical bar marking a short prosodic break.
Also known as: Foot group mark, Minor break mark
In the International Phonetic Alphabet a single vertical bar marks a minor break in an utterance, roughly where a comma would fall in writing. It groups a phrase rather than a word.
Marks a minor prosodic break, separating phrases within an utterance.
Contexts: Language and transcription
Is one of the few IPA symbols concerned with the shape of a whole utterance rather than with a single sound.
Contexts: Language and transcription
A single plain vertical bar the full height of the line, standing between the groups it separates.