tame-yellow•3w ago
Migaku pitch accent colors
Can anyone tell me what the pitch accent colors mean and or point me to the direction of the source to get the information from.
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metropolitan-bronze•2w ago
https://legacy.migaku.io/tools-guides/migaku-japanese/manual > go to "Pitch Accent Coloring", for some reason I can't link the anchor directly
Here's a link to the color meanings from the old guide (sorry if there's an updated version, I only know this one)
Migaku Japanese User's Manual
This manual contains an explanation of every feature and piece of functionality in the Migaku Japanese Add-on.
metropolitan-bronze•2w ago
Just in case you're unfamiliar with the 4 patterns, here's a short video that introduces all of them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6AoilGEers
Dogen
YouTube
Japanese Pitch-Accent in 10 Minutes / 日本語の高低アクセ...
Thanks to Joey (youtube.com/theanimeman) for the shoutout!
Learn Japanese pitch-accent and pronunciation from my Patreon Series "Japanese Phonetics"
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Dogen / Japanese / Japanese Pitch-Accent in 10 Minutes / Japanese-Pitch Accent / 日本語の高低アクセント / 日本語 / 日本語のアクセント / 日本...
metropolitan-bronze•2w ago
metropolitan-bronze•2w ago
Also in case you're not familiar with Kifuku (thank you, GPT):
Because the pitch changes depending on their form, instead of labeling every form of verbs and adjectives with heiban/nakadaka/etc., we use the more general word 起伏（きふく, kifuku), meaning "pitch rise and fall".
- It tells us the word isn’t flat (not heiban), and has a rise and then a drop somewhere — but that drop might shift depending on the form.
For example:
- The verb たべる (to eat) is heiban: low-high-high
- The verb たべた (ate) is kifuku: low-high-low
So kifuku is a flexible way to talk about how the pitch behaves across different forms of verbs and adjectives.
tame-yellowOP•2w ago
Dude you rock 😎
metropolitan-bronze•2w ago
Also never ask ChatGPT about pitch accent, see https://discord.com/channels/752293144917180496/752299006377459794/1374699330140770374 😂
tame-yellowOP•2w ago
Noted