LEXICAL PITCH ACCENT IN GOSHOGAWARA JAPANESE: RISING OR FALLING?

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This study analyzes Goshogawara Japanese (GJ) which has a rising lexical pitch accent. Accented words in this dialect are known to exhibit a pitch fall in the final syllable only when the word is at the final position of a prosodic phrase above the word. The results reveal that, contradictory to earlier reports, the fall is realized phrase-medially as well. The results suggest that the accented word in GJ contains a fall (HL) in its representation.

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