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