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The pitch accent of a word consists of two components: the lexical tone, and the position of the downstep (the latter is confined to appear after the 3rd-to-last mora). A high-tone word is consistently high until the downstep, whereafter the pitch drops sharply. A low-tone word starts low and has the highest pitch at the tonic mora, which is immediately before the downstep. | The pitch accent of a word consists of two components: the lexical tone, and the position of the downstep (the latter is confined to appear after the 3rd-to-last mora). A high-tone word is consistently high until the downstep, whereafter the pitch drops sharply. A low-tone word starts low and has the highest pitch at the tonic mora, which is immediately before the downstep. | ||
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#High lexical tone is marked in the initial syllable; low tone is not marked, unless necessitated by rule 2. | #High lexical tone is marked in the initial syllable; low tone is not marked, unless necessitated by rule 2. | ||
#The tonic syllable is always marked: | #The tonic syllable is always marked: | ||
##If the downstep occurs after a long syllable (syllable with a long vowel or diphthong), the syllable is rising in a low-tone word, and high in a high-tone word. | |||
##If the downstep occurs between the two morae of a long syllable, the syllable has falling tone. | |||
#If the first syllable has high tone and precedes a downstep, the second syllable is marked as low. | #If the first syllable has high tone and precedes a downstep, the second syllable is marked as low. | ||
If the downstep occurred word-finally, the first syllable of a following high tone word would have slightly lower pitch. A word final short vowel | If the downstep occurred word-finally, the first syllable of a following high tone word would have slightly lower pitch. A word final high short vowel occurring in isolation, was realized as a falling, short vowel. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||