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Meaning of "pitch accent"

Pitch accent refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables within a word in spoken language. It determines the tone and emphasis of the word, and varies across different languages and dialects. In English, pitch accent is less prominent compared to languages like Japanese or Swedish
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  • Any of a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words.

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Pitch accent is not marked in either orthography.
It also indicates intonation in pitch accent languages.
Norwegian is a pitch accent language with two distinct pitch patterns.
The dialect does not have pitch accent.
There is a pitch accent system.
This use of tone may be characterized as pitch accent.
Blackfoot is a pitch accent language.
It is characterized by loss of pitch accent.
Blackfoot is a pitch accent language and it is a contrastive feature in the language.
There are significant variations in pitch accent between dialects.
Pitch accent japanese.
Syllable structure often interacts with stress or pitch accent.
Many linguists analyse Japanese pitch accent somewhat differently.
Lexical pitch accent and tonal targets in Daegu Korean MS thesis.
There are significant variations in the realization of the pitch accent between dialects.

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Incorrect pitch accent is a strong characteristic of a " foreign accent " in Japanese.
The Horjul dialect mostly has pitch accent.
Today, the pitch accent can be heard only in the traditional Vedic chantings.
The phonology of Japanese also includes a pitch accent system.
However, Tuvan is considered a pitch accent language with contrastive low pitch instead of a tonal language.
The Poljane dialect lacks pitch accent.
There is also a pitch accent system with two contrastive tones, high-level and high-falling.
Vedic Sanskrit had a pitch accent.
Its pitch accent is denoted by acute accent in Latin script e.g., á.
The Lower Carniolan dialect generally has a pitch accent.
A few words are pronounced different pitch accent between Yamanote and Shitamachi.
The Upper Savinja dialect does not have pitch accent.
Unlike Ancient Greek, which had a pitch accent system, Modern Greek has variable ( phonologically unpredictable ) stress.
The Črni Vrh dialect lacks pitch accent.
Western limit of Limburgish pitch accent (Largest lexical distance from Standard Dutch, Hoppenbrouwers): 5.
The Eastern Lower Carniolan subdialect has a pitch accent.
Many languages described as having pitch accent are word-tone languages.
Lithuanian has a free, mobile stress, and is also characterized by pitch accent.
From the second century BC, the Ancient Greek pitch accent was replaced with a stress accent.
Its accentuation is sometimes described as a simple tone system, often called pitch accent.
Gothic used a stress accent rather than the pitch accent of proto-Indo-European.
Beside the letters, the Korean alphabet originally employed diacritic marks to indicate pitch accent.
Japanese also has ( phonologically distinctive ) pitch ( called pitch accent in linguistics ), similar to Serbian / Croatian.
Many Ryukyuan languages, like Standard Japanese and most Japanese dialects, have contrastive pitch accent.
Japanese word accent speech analysis Formulation of Japanese pitch accent Akamatsu, Tsutomu 1997.
Like many Dardic languages, Palula shows either tone or, as in Palula, a pitch accent.
Tolowa is not fully tonal, but instead has a pitch accent.
In Choctaw, very few words are distinguished only by pitch accent.

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