These two levels of the hierarchy may be schematized as follows: In English orthography, a continuing prosodic boundary may be marked with a comma (assuming the writer is using commas to represent prosody rather than grammatical structure), while final prosodic boundaries may be marked with a full stop (period).
The International Phonetic Alphabet has symbols (single and double pipes) for "minor" and "major" prosodic breaks.
Since there are more than two levels of prosodic units, the use of these symbols depends on the structure of the language and which information the transcriber is attempting to capture.
The pipe symbols – the vertical bars | and ‖ – used above are phonetic, and so will often disagree with English punctuation, which only partially correlates with prosody.
In such cases, some linguists use only the single pipe, with continuing and final prosody marked by a comma and period (full stop), respectively.