Questions tagged [pitch-accent]
高低アクセント. Changes in pitch associated with a particular word. Does not include changes in pitch due to intonation.
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Pitch accent of numbers with 万
I know that for the numbers 1-10, 万 changes the pitch accent to fall on the first mora of 万 (i.e. 一万(イチマ'ン), 五万(ゴマ'ン), 十万(ジューマ'ン)).
But what about for words like 二十万, 十五万, 三百万. Do 二十, 十五, and 三百 keep ...
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Pitch accent of -り adverbs
This is a followup to the question For which parts of speech does a 平板/heiban–vs–尾高/odaka pitch accent contrast (word-final H(-H) vs H(-L)) exist? asked by Lover of Structure
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I'm wondering if there ...
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When is 明日(あした) clearly 平板型?
(This post only concerns 標準語.)
I always thought that 明日{あした} was simply 尾高型, but when I look it up in the dictionary (大辞林), it says that it is 尾高型 as a noun and 平板型 adverbially.
This is a bit ...
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In which situations is it okay to exceptionally prefix いち/一 to powers of 10 (ten) which are not powers of 10000 (ten thousand)?
My textbook (みんなの日本語, 2e, TWnese edition by 大新書局) and teacher teach that いち/一 is added for powers of 10000 (ten thousand), but not for other powers of 10 (ten). (That's not exactly how they phrase it, ...
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Adding emphasis to "was"
I know (at least I think I do) that you can add contrast to verbs by adding は e.g. 食べてはいる = "I'm eating it (not drinking it/rubbing it on my skin etc)".
I'm wondering, specifically, how you ...
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For which parts of speech does a 平板/heiban–vs–尾高/odaka pitch accent contrast (word-final H(-H) vs H(-L)) exist?
For which parts of speech does a pitch accent contrast between word-final H(-H) (unaccented, 平板 heiban) and H(-L) (nucleus on last syllable, 尾高 odaka) exist?
Someone tells me "mainly nouns, but ...
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Lexicographic convention for indicating the pitch accent if the part of speech has no 平板/heiban–vs–尾高/odaka (word-final H(-H) vs H(-L)) contrast
If a word's pitch accent contour ends in a high pitch, how do lexicographic resources usually indicate it if the word's part of speech doesn't allow for a contrast between word-final H(-H) (unaccented,...
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Pitch of Intervals of 100 With Counters
Though counters vary quite a bit in pitch, when it comes to large numbers there seem to be rules which force them to be Heiban:
However, what about intervals of 100? NHK will often show the pitch ...
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Why does 受信箱 have a downstep when both 受信 and 箱 are heiban?
Keeping in mind that yes, pitch accent is sometimes quite arbitrary, I'm wondering if there's a tendency which explains why 受信 is heiban, 箱 is heiban, but compounds such as:
受信料
受信箱
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Do Positive Polarity Items ever induce pitch changes?
1 Context: NPIs Induce Pitch Changes
In Japanese, when various words are used as a Negative Polarity Item (NPI), their pitch often changes to Heiban. For example, this post illustrates this with なんの:
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Pitch accent involving devoicing like クラス
[n] where n represents an accent nucleus on the n-th mora.
クラス [1], 星星 [2], できない [2], 追いつく [3]
All of these words seem to be pronounced slightly differently in context than what is 'official'
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What the heck is up with odaka patterns in realized speech?
I have been plagued with uncertainty as to whether my ears are hearing a phenomenon that doesn't exist or not. Double negative aside let me get to the point.
Sometimes I hear 明らか [2] and sometimes [3]....
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Is the pitch of 他にも Heiban?
When the Heiban 他(ほか{LH}) combines with にも to form
ほか + に + も
the standard pitch rules would indicate that it's pronounced ほかにも{LHHL}; however, OJAD states that the pitch of 他にも is actually ほかにも{...
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Pitch accent of ~回
I have a question regarding pitch accent of 二回. As far as I am aware of ~回 accent goes ~か\い. However tokoboto and japandict shows 二回 as (に/かい) and ojad lists it as (にか\い) like I expected it to be. So ...
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Is there a pitch accent difference between the two 〜たって derivations?
In particular say:
“東京に行ったって言ったの？” => “He said he went to Tokyo?”
“東京に行ったって何も変わらない” => “Going to Tokyo won't change anything.”
Are these two “〜たって” coming from different sources, one ...
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