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Japanese/Pitch Accent/Pitch accent usage overview.md
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| 14 | 14 | 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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| 16 | 16 | Let's look at this sentence: |
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| 18 | 17 | > 山口さんは日本人ですか |
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| 20 | 18 | Being very generous one could split this sentence into these separate words |
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| 22 | 20 | 山口 さん は 日本人 です か |