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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Why is すごく almost always pronounced with an accent on the second mora (instead of the first mora)?
From my experience, there are many speakers who say すごく{LHL} even though they say はやく{HLL}, うまく{HLL}, etc.
I am aware that there are two "accent types" for the conjugated forms of downstep-...
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Understanding 付け忘れんな(ぁ)
This is from a subs2srs anki deck that I'm studying.
(Edit: Audio on soundcloud )
The original transcription and translation is:
付け忘れんな # Don't forget to record it.
But it sounds to me like:
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Are there any general rules for guessing the pitch accent of 1- or 2- mora nouns in compounds?
I've already looked up here but so far most are only concerned with 3 or 4 mora suffixes or are overly specific. I'm looking for a generic rule I can apply for compound suffixes made up of 1 to 2 ...
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Pitch accent for 〜ごろ(に)
I can't find any source for how the pitch accent of 〜ごろ(ni) works. Does it function like any other particle, carrying the pitch of the previous word, or does it act more like a suffix like 〜人 or 〜語; ...
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Pronunciation of ことばかり
At 5m18s, the speaker says
悪いことばかりしています
with pronunciation ことばかり{LHHLL}. Even OJAD agrees with this pronunciation:
Question: I thought こと was Odaka, so shouldn't this be ことばかり{LHLLL}?
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Are there any rules for determining accent phrases?
Recently, I've been doing Japanese language processing. As far as I know, Japanese is a tone language and there is only one accent nucleus in an accent phrase in most cases. So, basically, there are ...
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What is pitch accent for ではありません?
I hear it like: ではありません{HHLHHHL}
Is it correct?
Could not find answer in OJAD.
PRAAT:
Sound sample: https://voca.ro/1iCkbzE4w7HT
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Does 時 change in pitch in の時に form?
At 2m01s, the speaker says
14歳の時に剣術を始めました
I know the usual pitch of 時に is ときに{LHL}; however, here it kind of sounds like the speaker is saying noTOkini のときに{LHLL}. Is there something going on here, ...
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pitch accents dictionary/extension [closed]
is there a website that add pitch accent to the text given by the users.I know kanshudo,which has a pitch accent dictionary but it can't display the pitch accent of the whole passage i paste in.
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Accent pattern of ています
According to the rules of accent, a "flat" verb (平板式) keeps flat in its て-form, and a non-"flat" (起伏式) verb is accented in the antepenultimate position in the て-form:
ア↑ビル（浴びる）→ ア↑...
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Can downstepped verbs in て-form become Heiban?
Example #1: At 5m28s, it sounds like 出てきました is being pronounced as deTEKIMAshita, even though it "should be" pronounced as DEtekiMAshita
Example #2: Similarly, at 2m37s, it sounds like ...
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Pitch accent of ～ざる
What is the resulting pitch accent when one appends ～ざる to 平板 (する, 言う, 寝る) and 起伏 (来る, 持つ, 食べる) verbs?
Intuitively, I would have assumed that the resulting word falls in the same class (平板／起伏) as the ...
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Pitch accent of ～ちまう and ～ちゃう
The pitch accent of ～てしまう is fairly obvious. The pitch accent of the て-form is well-documented and しまう is just a 平板 verb.
As for the contracted forms ～ちまう and ～ちゃう, I have come across conflicting ...
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Pitch accent of 問題なだけなのだ
Apparently, the correct pitch accent of 問題なだけなのだ is: もんだいな{HHHHH} ・ だけなのだ{LHLLL} (two accent phrases)
I don't understand why だけ creates a new accent phrase here (I don't think it usually does) and why ...
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On the interplay between pitch accent and devoicing in Standard Japanese
A claim regularly cited is that for younger speakers, devoicing and pitch accent are orthogonal features; i.e. the accent kernel is not shifted away from devoiced morae and neither is devoicing ...
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Is ため always 尾高?
Even ための？ For example is pronouncing the following sentence like this correct
旅行ため\の準\備
or is it just 旅行ための準\備
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Pitch accent of 物(もの) as a standalone noun
(I am talking about もの as a standalone noun outside of compounds. The kind of もの used after the 連用形 form of verbs (忘れ物 etc.) is usually 平板型 (though there are many exceptions))
I feel like 尾高型 is in a ...
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Pitch accent of 訳(わけ) when immediately following a verb
Dictionaries unanimously describe 訳 as an 頭高型 word: わけ{HL}
However, oftentimes when 訳 immediately follows a downstep-type verb, I don't hear any drop at all. That is to say, phrases like なるわけ sound ...
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方(かた) suffix pitch accent
When 方 is used as a suffix like these for example:
考え方、作り方、言い方、喋り方、etc.
is there a way to guess/know the reading or is it just straight up random?
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What would the pitch accent be for 言うた（ゆうた） vs. the name ユウタ?
I couldn't find information on either when I searched, so I was wondering if there was any difference. I would assume it might vary between regions, so in a region where ゆうた is used for 言った
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Pitch Accent Shifts in "Interrogative Pronouns"?
I'm not sure if this is the right term, but it seems like "interogative pronouns" like 何, 幾つ, 誰 and so forth typically have Atamadaka pitches officially in dictionaries.
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Does the pitch fall before 子?
I swear I hear "その\子" ”この\子たち” but my pitch perception is not that good and it might drop after 子 but I can't really tell
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Can words before quotative と have 2 pitch accents?
In 「角が3あるので三角と言います」:
The dictionary pitch of 三角 is Atamadaka (SAnkaku)
According to OJAD, く followed by a と should lead to the く being devoiced (SAnkak_to)
Yet, at 22s of https://youtu.be/...
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Pitch Accent of verbs that end in なくなる and it's conjugations?
If I had to guess I would see they all drop at NA but I'm not sure
食べなくな\る 食べなくな\った
遣らなくな\る 遣らなくな\った
I would say 食べなくなりま\した for the masu form
Is my intuition correct?
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Pitch accent of けりゃ/なきゃ
Does it keep the pitch of its original form? So 食べ\なきゃ, 食べ\りゃ, 行かな\きゃ, 行かな\けりゃ etc or does it change?
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Does the contrastive は always rise in pitch?
At 3:03 the speaker says
この人は
I could be wrong, but it sounds like she's saying this as "koNOHITOWA" rather than "koNOHITOwa".
According to my bilingual dictionary, Heiban is not ...
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pitch accent of "compound" verbs
Lets say this: 大人びて見える, 大人びる and 見える are 中高, but does the pitch change? or is it the same?
and for stem of verb + another verb, like 倒れこむ, 嚙みちぎる etc, do they change the pitch when in those ...
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Pitch: Why for mom and dad is the 2nd syllable stressed but for aunt and uncle is the 1st syllable stressed?
I notice in the pitch / stress or whatever it's oKAA-san and oTOU-san but then it's Oba-san and Oji-san. Why?
I'm not so familiar with this LH HL thing but I think it's:
お母【LH】, お父【LH】
おじ【HL】, おば【HL】
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Attempting to Parse the NHK 2016 Pitch Entry on ちょっと
When looking up the definition of ちょっと in a bilingual dictionary, it is given the possible pitch accent patterns of (i) atamadaka, (ii) heiban, and (iii) odaka. So which accent to use, in which ...
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勝手で pitch accent
I have always heard 勝手 and 勝手に pronounced as 平板. When preceded by another noun forming a compound 勝手 does seem to become 頭高, but I have recently come across 勝手で, standalone, pronounced as 頭高. Did I ...
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Pitch of 「見た目より」
Consider the sentence
鈴木さんは&見た目より若く見えますね。
Mr. Suzuki's not as old as he looks.
According to my dictionary:
見た目 has Atamadaka pitch
より is a particle (so should be down-pitched here)
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ところ pitch accent
NHK seems to suggest there are two pitch patterns for ところ but they appear to come with different meanings. The word referring to physical locations seems to be 尾高 ところ＼, e.g.
いろんなところで{LHHHHHHL}
The ...
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もう for "already" and もう for "another"
After studying the difference between もう and まだ (which seems clear to me now), I realize that there seems to be two different words spelled もう, which apparently have different pitch accents; high to ...
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When is 意外 ever read as 頭高?
I have always heard いがい{LHH}, いがいに{LHHH}, いがいと{LHHH}, but NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 seems to list いがい{HLL} too, and the same goes for Wiktionary. I wonder if 意外 is really pronounced that way. What about the ...
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Why is the pitch of そう in 「そうですね」Atamadaka?
According to the NHK pitch accent dictionary, そう has Heiban pitch when used as an adverb (副詞):
and Atamadaka pitch when used as an interjection:
Question: Despite the above, the phrase 「そうですね」parses ...
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Does なぜ's pitch ever change in embedded questions?
I have always heard なぜ{HL}, but this one sounds like なぜ{LH} in 英語ベースの英語学習がなぜ間違ってるかというと. Am I mishearing it? I think most people say なぜ{HL} in both independent interrogative clauses and embedded ...
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Determining Pitch of 何より from Accent Dictionaries
I'm trying to learn how to determine the pitch accent of words from monolingual accent dictionaries. In this case the word in question is 何より, which can have Atamadaka or Heiban pitch. According to my ...
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Name 直人 pitch accent
Since 菅直人さん's name did come up in the news a lot, I thought I was pretty familiar with the pronunciation which I thought was なおと{HLL} but I seem to have heard this name (not 菅直人さん, other 直人s) ...
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Does the pitch of ある ever change?
Context: I've come across the sentence
そんなわけあるはずない
which I'm assuming parses into
(そんな)(わけ)(ある)(はずない)
and means something like
That sort of reason existing cannot be!
or more idiomatically:
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What pitch accent do Japanese native speakers apply to Classical Japanese verbs?
I was reading a tanka which appears in the Man'yōshū (my translation):
瓜[食]{は}めば子ども思ほゆ栗[食]{は}めばまして[偲]{しぬ}はゆ
いづくより[来]{きた}りしものそ[目交]{まながひ}にもとなかかりて[安眠]{やすい}しなさぬ
When I eat a melon, thoughts of my ...
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Pitch Accent Rule for -たり form?
Is there a general rule of thumb for determining the pitch accent of the -たり form of verbs? Are they related to the pitch accent of the plain past form?
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Pitch accent of 不幸 vs. 不幸の
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不幸 is listed in most (Japanese to English) dictionaries as Nakadaka with a stress on こ. The version of NHK I have also lists an acceptable pitch for it as Atamadaka (but NHK doesn't explain ...
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When should この世 be Heiban or Odaka?
Dictionaries list この世 as either Heiban or Odaka, presumably because 世 can either be Heiban or Odaka. Are there rules of thumb for when 世/この世 should be used in either its Odaka or Heiban forms?
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彼氏・彼女 pitch accent
I have always thought in 標準語 those two words should always be 頭高, as corroborated by several authoritative sources including NHK. But I have very occasionally heard other pitch patterns. This one ...
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Do Negative Downstepped i-adj's have accents on な?
Consider that 上手い is a downstepped i-adj (i.e., pronounced as うまい{LHL}).
Question: What are the pitch accents of the following negative conjugations of 上手い?
上手くない
上手くなかった
上手くなくて
上手くなければ
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Pitch Accent of てる / てない (Casual Speak)
With respect to pitch accent, the negative form of いる{LH} is いない{LHH}, while the negative form of ある{HL} is ない{HL}. But what is the pitch of their shortened versions when used in てる / てない ...
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Pitch Accent Rule for Verb Stems?
Are there known pitch accent rules or patterns for determining the pitch accent of verb stems? Things like:
見る ⟶ 見
殺す ⟶ 殺し
呼ぶ ⟶ 呼び
泳ぐ ⟶ 泳ぎ
書く ⟶ 書き
読む ⟶ 読み
死ぬ ⟶ 死に
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Pitch Accent of 何にも
I'm trying to understand the pitch of the sentence fragment
それであたし何にもしてないのに...
In particular "何にも" is giving me trouble. When I enter this word into OJAD, it shows as Atamadaka:
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Can the か particle change the pitch accent of verbs?
Consider the Heiban verb やる. According to a video on Japanese verb pitch accent rules, Heiban verbs with no downsteps remain Heiban when conjugated to their negative form. Prosody confirms this rule ...
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pitch accent exception that changes from heiban to atamadaka (学校)
I am using the anki N5 and N4 vocabulary decks based on the 日本語総まとめ books (edition is ask). As far as I know 学校 is always heiban but in that example:
日本語の学校を見学します。
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