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Summary Of: Pitch accent
Pitch accent may also be restricted in distribution... any one syllable may have pitch accent in the form of a high tone... Different languages specify different relationships between pitch accent and stress placement... the pitch accent is associated with the syllable marked as metrically strong in the lexicon... Pitch accent languages differ from tone languages in that pitch accents are only assigned to one syllable... one target within each pitch accent may be designated with a... H pitch accent the L target is aligned with the stressed syllable... This model of pitch accent structure differs from that of the British School... reliably distinguished between the two pitch accent types in Swedish... pitch accent followed by an L... the pitch accent remains linked to the stressed syllable and the edge tone remains at the end of... pitch accent is replaced with an L... The nuclear pitch accent is defined as the head of a prosodic phrase... In English it is the last pitch accent in a prosodic phrase... If there is only one pitch accent in a phrase... theories of prosodic meaning in English claim that pitch accent placement is tied to the... The Prosodic Structure and Pitch Accent of Northern Kyungsang Korean... Encyclodia Page On: Pitch accent
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