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===Stress and pitch===

New Karanesa is a stress or dynamic-accent language, where stressed syllables are louder and may be lengthened slightly. The Karanesan family does not have a pitch accent system, unlike Rokadong.

New Karanesa is a stress or dynamic-accent language, where stressed syllables are louder and may be lengthened slightly. The Karanesan family does not have a pitch accent system, unlike Rokadong. However, there is often a distinct phrasal pitch pattern: the topic of the sentence often has higher pitch than the surrounding words, and interrogative words also often receive higher pitch.

New Karanesa has a strict limit on stressed syllables: a syllable cannot receive primary stress if only one mora follows it. This means primary stress can only occur on the ultimate or antepenultimate mora, though these morae can be in any of the last three syllables depending on the syllables' content. If the stress is ultimate, the vowel is always phonetically lengthened, even if it is already long. This is unlike other strictly Nentan languages, and more in line with High Kanafan languages.

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 ===Stress and pitch===
-New Karanesa is a stress or dynamic-accent language, where stressed syllables are louder and may be lengthened slightly. The Karanesan family does not have a pitch accent system, unlike Rokadong.
+New Karanesa is a stress or dynamic-accent language, where stressed syllables are louder and may be lengthened slightly. The Karanesan family does not have a pitch accent system, unlike Rokadong. However, there is often a distinct phrasal pitch pattern: the topic of the sentence often has higher pitch than the surrounding words, and interrogative words also often receive higher pitch.
 New Karanesa has a strict limit on stressed syllables: a syllable cannot receive primary stress if only one mora follows it. This means primary stress can only occur on the ultimate or antepenultimate mora, though these morae can be in any of the last three syllables depending on the syllables' content. If the stress is ultimate, the vowel is always phonetically lengthened, even if it is already long. This is unlike other strictly Nentan languages, and more in line with High Kanafan languages.