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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## Mora
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A mora is the shortest unit of length in Japanese phonology. Every open syllable is a mora, long syllables are two moras[^moras], even if spelled with **ー**. **ん** and **っ** are also considered separate moras. A rule of thumb is, when written in kana, each character represents a separate mora (with an exception of small **ゃゅょ** and sometimes **ぁぃぅぇぉ**)
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- **~{しゃか\いじん}** (社会人) not ~~**~{しゃかい\じん}**~~, because **い** is a weak mora.
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# Types of phrases
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## Noun phrases
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### Stressed nouns
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After stressed nouns, most postpositions will follow the low pattern:
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- ~{せんせ\い}
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- ~{わたし}**~{^な\のよ}**
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- ~{わたし}**~{^ま\で}**
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-One exception from this rule is **から**, which behaves like a one mora particle:
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- ~{わたし}**~{^から}**
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- ~{わたし}**~{^から\です}**
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- ~{わたし}**~{^から\の}**
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+- ~{わたし}**~{^だけ}**
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+- ~{わたし}**~{^だけ\です}**
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+- ~{わたし}**~{^だけ\の}**
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+- ~{わたし}**~{^だけ\には}**
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+[^karadake]: The reason for this is that both から and だけ originally come from suffix nouns which had odaka patterns: から is from [柄]{から} (origin, type) and だけ is from [丈]{たけ} (height, limit)
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