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Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - AlexandreC - 2012-01-27 Does anyone know of a text available online that is entirely annotated with pitch accent? Preferably the transcription of a spoken text. My goal is to sort through the text and identify the most common irregularities (that depart from the simply "low-high until an accent comes, then low" rule), so that the hundred-or-so rules found in SMK and NHK can be ordered in terms of priority, and so students can study effectively. Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - buonaparte - 2012-01-27 The only 'texts' I've ever seen were Jorden Beginning Japanese - an old textbook in romaji only and Genki 1 and 2 - parallel texts, pitch, intonation, silent vowels marked, 3x pdf http://www.mediafire.com/?viu7k399ay7caqj Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - AlexandreC - 2012-01-27 Thanks. I doubt these examples exhibit many irregularities, but I'll have a look. Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - ta12121 - 2012-01-27 Maybe there is a native source for this type of topic? I remember talking to my japanese friends about this and they said it's something that isn't normal taught to 外国人. The best way is to find books designed for natives on this topic. Then again, I might be wrong on this one. Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - jishera - 2012-01-27 Japanese for Everyone also shows the pitch accent in its vocab lists. It's not online though unless you download a pdf version. Unfortunately, it doesn't show pitch accent in the transcripts of the dialogues. I don't know of many books/websites that show pitch accent in general. Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - AlexandreC - 2012-01-27 @ta12121 -- Indeed, it isn't normally taught to foreigners. It isn't normally taught to anyone, actually... @jishera -- My goal is to identify how pitch changes from the base form (easily found in the dictionary) and how to learn to predict it. Accent dictionaries identify over a hundred rules, but surely some of them should be prioritized over others... Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - Bokusenou - 2012-01-27 Hmm, "Japanese: The Spoken Language" might fit the bill. It's all in romaji, and is more "academic" than most textbooks, and it's not online (as far as I know), but most libraries probably have it, or can get it through inter-library loan, so looking for it might be worth a try. Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - socrat - 2012-01-27 Funny note about pitch: I used the word たまたま　in a sentence meaning casually while talking to 2 natives recently, but they started cracking up. If you get the pitch wrong on that one it means (balls).. お箸を持てたら橋の端っこ歩き　　　　-> guess I stick to context for now Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent? - kitakitsune - 2012-01-27 Surprised no one has mentioned this book yet. One of the only books written specifically for foreigners designed to improve their pronunciation. 1日10分の発音練習 http://www.amazon.co.jp/1%E6%97%A510%E5%88%86%E3%81%AE%E7%99%BA%E9%9F%B3%E7%B7%B4%E7%BF%92-%E6%B2%B3%E9%87%8E-%E4%BF%8A%E4%B9%8B/dp/4874242863