Abstract
The present study relates to development of prosodic symbols for supporting phonetic material. Prosodigraph has been established as supplemental visual symbols for teaching phonetics. However, problem remains that students and/or teachers cannot understand them very easily. The present study aims to develop prosodic symbols which satisfy the following conditions: 1. people who lack phonetic and prosodic knowledge will be able to read them; 2. teachers can write them, after a little understanding and practice; 3. the symbols are compact so that they can be written in dialogues used intext books, if necessary. The symbols should be easily adopted by inexperienced teachers in phonetics and in overseas Japanese classes.
