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Japanese text online completely annotated with pitch accent?

#1
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.
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#2
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
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#3
Thanks. I doubt these examples exhibit many irregularities, but I'll have a look.
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#4
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.
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#5
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.
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#6
@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...
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#7
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.
Edited: 2012-01-27, 4:30 pm
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#8
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).. Smile

お箸を持てたら橋の端っこ歩き    -> guess I stick to context for now
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#9
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%...4874242863
Edited: 2012-01-27, 6:42 pm
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