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Predicting Japanese Pitch - Help needed
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nescafe Senior Member Japan Joined 5220 days ago 137 posts - 227 votes	Message 9 of 10 11 March 2010 at 3:07pm \| IP Logged
	To determine the pitch accent rules seems a very tough problem. Here is a page about Tokyo accent in the Japanese wikipedia http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9D%B1%E4%BA%AC%E5%BC%8F%E3% 82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%88 or google "東京式アクセント" I am a Kansainese, speak in Keihanshin-accent. I myself can not speak in correct Tokyo accent. Japanese accent is very complicated. 1 person has voted this message useful
Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5192 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, German^C1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian	Message 10 of 10 11 March 2010 at 3:42pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks, nescafe, that's also what I've been finding lately. Before I started delving into this, I didn't realize that it was noun phrase endings and verb endings that dictated pitch patterns. Sounds stupid, but nobody could tell me, so I didn't know. I've been finding pattern tables lately (like the link you posted) and I'll be studying them. Even if I don't remember them all, I'm sure there are a few basic patterns that will cover a large percentage of cases. That's still better than not knowing at all. People always say that Japanese pronunciation is easy, but now I disagree -- though the sounds are easy, the entire pronunciation system is not at all easier than, say, most European languages. Once I've mastered the pitch patterns of Tokyo Japanese, I'll be studying the patterns in Kansai-ben ;) 1 person has voted this message useful

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