"and you go down…"
Many thought that "down" was downstepped with respect to "go," but HK argued that a voiced segment such as 'd' lowers the f0 and that this pitch accent on "down" would therefore not be a true downstep. Also, there seems to be a little rise in between the H* of "go" and the downstepped (or not) H* on "down," so some thought that the pitch accent on "down" should be H+!H*. In addition, due to high intensity on "down," EK thought that there might be a higher pitch level between "go" and "down."
Overall, what was difficult in this utterance:
1. It was hard to decide when the speaker produced phrase accents 2. It was hard to tell when a particular accent was high (H of some kind) when it is lower than other H's in the utterance. For example, we agreed on a H* pitch accent for the word "slight," even though its f0 was lower than the other H*'s in the utterance. But then we reminded ourselves about (a) pitch reset in every intermediate phrase, and (b) that the f0 could drop throughout the utterance due to declension.
The outstanding question was: how low does a pitch accent have to be before it becomes a L*? We will try to include uterances in future weeks that have L* pitch accents in them.
There was no consensus in the group for how this one should be transcribed, so the group's TextGrid shows various alternatives. Two complete transcriptions are given in the tiers marked "tonesa" and "tonesb" with corresponding break index tiers, and then the tiers named "alt.tones1" and "alt.tones2" show other alternate pitch accents that people wanted to argue for in a couple of places.