see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. A pitch-accent language is a type of language that, when spoken, has certain syllables in words or...

Japanese pitch accent is a feature of the Japanese language that distinguishes words by accenting particular morae in most Japanese dialects. The nature...

Tonal languages are different from pitch-accent languages in that tonal languages can have each syllable with an independent tone whilst pitch-accent languages...

framework, pitch accents are distinguished from both the abstract metrical stress and the acoustic stress of a syllable. Different languages specify different...

is not a tonal language and can be considered a pitch-accent language and a syllable-timed language. It has nine basic parts of speech. The Philippines...

have contrastive length counterparts. Blackfoot is a pitch accent language. Blackfoot language has been declining in the number of native speakers and...

for example (Ripuarian) zɛɪ (tonal accent 1) "sieve" vs. zɛɪ (tonal accent 2) "she". See Pitch-accent language. Russ, Charles (2013). The Dialects of...

variance in pitch intonation on lexemes, especially for questions. One rival suggestion is that Nigerian Pidgin "is something of a pitch-accent language in which...

much like the trilled ⟨rr⟩ of Spanish. Norwegian is a pitch-accent language with two distinct pitch patterns, like Swedish. They are used to differentiate...

the language. Possibly uniquely among the Uralic languages but similarly to Latvian and Lithuanian, Livonian has been described as a pitch-accent language...

Greek accent is believed to have been a melodic or pitch accent. In Ancient Greek, one of the final three syllables of each word carries an accent. Each...

Accent (phonetics), prominence given to a particular syllable in a word, or a word in a phrase Pitch accent, prominence signaled primarily by pitch Accent...

The pitch accent of Vedic Sanskrit, or Vedic accent (Vedic: स्वराः svarāḥ) for brevity, is traditionally divided by Sanskrit grammarians into three qualities...

a tonal language like Chinese but a pitch accent language like Japanese, which was inherited from the Proto-Indo-European accent. Pitch accent was not...

the Tuvan pitch begins much lower. However, Tuvan is considered a pitch accent language with contrastive low pitch instead of a tonal language. When the...

absolute pitch may be acquired by infants when they learn to speak a tonal language (and possibly also by infants when they learn to speak a pitch-accent language)...

through pitch alone, it is called pitch accent, and when produced through length alone, it is called quantitative accent. When caused by a combination of...

The grave accent first appeared in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek to mark a lower pitch than the high pitch of the acute accent. In modern...

modification of the acute pitch. In the later development of the language, the ancient pitch accent was replaced by an intensity or stress accent, making the three...

a pitch accent. In Middle Common Slavic, all accented long vowels, nasal vowels and liquid diphthongs had a distinction between two pitch accents, traditionally...

the perceived phonological heaviness of the language. In speech, Wiyot words are grouped into pitch accent phrases, which are separated by commas when...

that the language has a pitch-accent system." A non-final accent is generally pronounced with a relatively high pitch followed by a fall in pitch on the...

in the written language. Yaqui has often been described as being a tonal or "pitch accent" language, but the modern forms of the language do not show any...

in The Gambia and Senegal borders on a pitch accent due to its proximity with non-tonal neighboring languages like Wolof. Mandinka is here represented...

a mōra on their own. Most dialects of Japanese are pitch accent languages, and these pitch accents are also based on morae. There is a unique set of mōra...

Greek, a stress accent has replaced the pitch accent, and the acute marks the stressed syllable of a word. The Greek name of the accented syllable was and...

English, is an accent and dialect of English associated with the city of Liverpool and the surrounding Liverpool City Region. The Scouse accent is highly distinctive...

pitch or change in pitch of a speech unit over time affects the semantic meaning of a sound. It also indicates intonation in pitch accent languages....

Austronesian languages. Meax has 5 vowels and 13 consonants. Like many other Papuan languages of the Bird's Head Peninsula,[which?] Meyah is a pitch-accent language...

It also has a simple pitch accent system only in multi-syllabic words while Standard Tibetan has a complex and distinct pitch system that includes tone...