Thinking About Word-Level Pitch Accent |
Description: Thinking About Sentence-Level Pitch Accent: https://youtu.be/cxxNcKXsmH0 MIA JP Support Add-on: Pitch Accent Q&A: https://youtu.be/v0Ixd2IkYik NOTES: -for i-adjectives in the "～くて" form, there are actually two possible pitch-patterns, which are mostly used interchangeably: [-3'> (like I show in the video: みじか↓くて), and [-4'> (みじ↓かくて). 2 mora words like "よい", which will only have 3 mora in the "～くて" form, obviously can only be pronounced with the [-3'> pattern (よ↓くて). -There are a few number non-heiban verbs (such as 入る and 帰る) that have a pitch of [-3'>, not [-2'>. This is due to a higher-level pitch-accent concept known as "特殊泊", or "special moras". "特殊泊" are "weak" moras that generally cannot become the accent-core of a word, and include ん, っ, the second half of extended vowels (such as the "あ" in "かあ"), and the second half of double-vowels (such as the "い" in かい). When the accent WOULD HAVE fallen on a "特殊泊", it gets bumped up to the previous mora instead. For example, because the second-to-last mora of "入る" is the second half of a double-vowel, its accent-core gets bumped up to "は". This doesn't have any influence on its conjugation; it still conjugates as a normal non-heiban verb. #PitchAccent 
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