Quick pitch/tone question

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Quick pitch/tone question

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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).
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Yes, I believe that would be termed a pitch accent system.

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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".

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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.

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