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Quick pitch/tone question

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:02 am
by 2+3 clusivity
Is the correct term for the following system a pitch accent? The wiki page is a little mixed and get the sense that the use of the term is as well.

Within any given word at most one syllable may receive stress. The same syllable is also marked for either high or low tone. All other syllables are unstressed and do not have variable tone (excluding prosodic features, etc. of course).

Re: Quick pitch/tone question

Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 2:31 pm
by malloc
Yes, I believe that would be termed a pitch accent system.

Re: Quick pitch/tone question

Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2016 4:21 am
by Magb
For the record, that's an almost perfect description of the Scandinavian pitch accent, except it's usually not as simple as "marked for either high or low tone".

Re: Quick pitch/tone question

Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:26 pm
by clawgrip
Similar for Japanese, except there is no stress aside from pitch, and there is only one way a syllable can be marked, which is having a pitch drop between that syllable and the next.