Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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A phrase is part of a sentence 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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Let's look at this sentence:
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-田中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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Being very generous you could split this sentence into these separate words:
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-田中　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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However, this sentence consists of only two phrases:
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-田中さんは　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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-- 田中さんは
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- - 田中 - core meaning word (surname)
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+- 山口さんは
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+ - 山口 - core meaning word (surname)
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- さん - honorific suffix
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- は - particle
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- 日本人ですか
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- か - particle
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And the whole sentence would be stressed like this:
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-~{たなかさんは}　~{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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+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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## Stressed mora
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It's the last high mora before a downstep. Note that if there's no downstep (heiban), the final mora is **not** stressed. In this wiki, stressed moras are marked in red. Examples: