Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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- パーティー - 4 moras: パ　ー　ティ　ー (ィ is not a separate mora as it's only used to explicitly spell ti instead of chi)
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-=Note=: a plural of "mora" can be both "moras" and "morae". I will be using the fist version as it's more inline with english plural rules
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+Note: a plural of "mora" can be both "moras" and "morae". I will be using the fist version as it's more inline with english plural rules
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## Phrase
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A phrase is part of a sentence with distinct meanign and gramatical function, which has it's own pitch accent. Contrary to common belief, pitch accent doesn't apply to words but to entire phrases in a sentence. A phrase usually consist of a core meaning word (usu. noun/verb/adjective) and it's prefixes, suffixes, particles, and conjugation endings.
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In almost every case, when a weak mora needs to be stressed, the stress moves one mora back:
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- **~{しゃか\いじん}** (社会人) not ~~**~{しゃかい\じん}**~~, because **い** is a weak mora.
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-# Specific cases
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-## Noun + particles
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+# Types of phrases
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+## Noun phrases
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+After stressed nouns, most postpositions will follow the =low= pattern:
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