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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-## Heiban, atamadaka, nakadaka, and odaka
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+## Pitch patterns
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These are the 4 patterns each word or phrase can have. These are:
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-- Heiban (平板)
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+- **Heiban** (平板)
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- Literal translation: "flat plank".
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- The first mora is low, and the rest are high.
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- Example: ~{わたしたち}
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-- Atamadaka (頭高)
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+- **Atamadaka** (頭高)
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- Literal translation: "head high".
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- The first mora is high, and the rest are low.
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- Example: ~{ま\いにち}
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-- Nakadaka (中高)
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+- **Nakadaka** (中高)
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- Literal translation: "middle high".
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- The first mora is low, then the pitch rises, similarly to heiban, but then it falls again.
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- Examples: ~{せんせ\い}、~{あな\た}
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- Note: The pitch can fall anywhere after it goes up. This means that just calling a pitch pattern "nakadaka" might still be ambiguous if a word is 4+ moras long.
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-- Odaka (尾高)
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+- **Odaka** (尾高)
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- Literal translation: "tail high".
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- Very similar to heiban, but there's a downstep after the last mora.
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- Example: ~{はな\}