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Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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| 9 | 9 | - 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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| 12 | -^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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| 12 | +=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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| 14 | 14 | ## Phrase |
| 15 | 15 | 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. |