JapanesePitchAccent

要旨

The goal of this chapter is to sketch Japanese pitch accent systems, focusing in particular on the major debates and findings in the past and the present. Many Japanese dialects, including the standard Tokyo dialect (henceforth Tokyo Japanese), have a lexical pitch accent, but pitch accent systems vary greatly from one dialect to another. This can be exemplified by (1), which shows how the recent loanword /ma.ku.do.na.ru.do/ ‘McDonald's’ is pronounced in different dialects. In (1) and the rest of this chapter, high‐pitched portions are denoted by capital letters, while syllable boundaries are indicated by dots wherever necessary.

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