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Pitch accent

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  1. 1
    Any of 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.
  2. 2
    emphasis that results from pitch rather than loudness wordnet

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