Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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# Definitions
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+In order to facilitate and streamline the explanation of pitch accent behaviour in Japanese, the following terms are used
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## Mora
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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)
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- せんせい - 4 moras: せ ん せ い