Pitch accent in Japanese

Language Log 2025-10-27

Summary:

How can you teach / learn these pitch differences?   Selected readings "Should non-native students of Japanese pay close attention to pitch accent?" (12/4/21) "The Japanese are Japanese because they speak Japanese" (4/6/2005) "Japanese pitch accent" (Wikipedia) "Pitch in Korean dialects" (12/17/17) "The Ramsey hypothesis" (6/27/22) [h.t. Hiroshi Kumamoto}

Link:

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Tags:

accents

Authors:

Victor Mair

Date tagged:

10/27/2025, 02:39

Date published:

10/26/2025, 23:54