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}