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Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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| 1 | 1 | # Definitions |
| 2 | +In order to facilitate and streamline the explanation of pitch accent behaviour in Japanese, the following terms are used |
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| 2 | 3 | ## Mora |
| 3 | 4 | A mora is the shortest unit of length in Japanese phonology. Every open syllable is a mora, long syllables are two moras, ん and っ are it's own moras too. A rule of thumb is that, when written in kana, each character represents a separate mora (with an exception of small ゃゅょ) |
| 4 | 5 | - せんせい - 4 moras: せ ん せ い |