Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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| パーティー | パーティー | パ・ー・ティ・ー | 4 | **ー** is always a separate mora (long vowels are two moras long); **ティ** is one mora because **ィ** only changes the vowel from **e** to **i** |
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| さぁ | さあ | さ・あ | 2 | Even though **ぁ** is a small kana character, it's used here to make **さ** long, therefore it is considered a separate mora |
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-[^moras]: A plural of "mora" can be both "moras" and "morae" ([source](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mora)). I will be using the fist version as it's more in line with the English plural rules
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+ A plural of "mora" can be both "moras" and "morae" ([source](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mora)). I will be using the fist version as it's more in line with the English plural rules
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## Phrase
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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.
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- ~{わたし}**~{^から\の}** ・~{わたし}**~{^だけ\の}**
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- ~{わたし}**~{^から\には}**・~{わたし}**~{^だけ\には}**
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-[^kara-dake]: The reason for this is that both から and だけ originally came from suffix nouns: から comes from 柄 (origin, type) and だけ comes from 丈 (height, limit)
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+ The reason for this is that both から and だけ originally came from suffix nouns: から comes from 柄 (origin, type) and だけ comes from 丈 (height, limit)
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## Na-adjective phrases
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Generally, the same rules as for nouns apply. So for stressed na-adjectives the pattern continues with the low pitch: