pitch accent

pitch accent

noun

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Noun

(plural pitch accents)

(linguistics) A term of convenience for a variety of restricted tone systems that use variations in pitch to give prominence to a syllable or mora within a word. The placement of this tone or the way it is realized can give different meanings to otherwise similar words.

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