Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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Let's look at this sentence:
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> 山口さんは日本人ですか
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-Being very generous one could split this sentence into these separate words
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-山口　さん　は　日本人　です　か
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+Being very generous one could split this sentence into these separate words
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+> 山口　さん　は　日本人　です　か
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However, this sentence consists of only two phrases:
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-山口さんは　日本人ですか
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+> 山口さんは　日本人ですか
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Where:
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- 山口さんは
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- か - particle
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Therefore the whole sentence would be stressed like this:
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> ~{やま\ぐちさんは}　~{にほんじ\んですか}
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And not
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-~~~{やま\ぐち}　~{さ\ん}　~{_は}　~{にほんじ\ん}　~{で\す}　~{か\}~~
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+> ~~~{やま\ぐち}　~{さ\ん}　~{_は}　~{にほんじ\ん}　~{で\す}　~{か\}~~
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Note: indicating a question by raising pitch at the end of a sentence is **not** a part of pitch accent analysis, and therefore will be omitted in examples
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