Re: Pitch-accent notation?

jim_breen_at_hotmail.com
Date: 10/19/04 

Date: 19 Oct 2004 02:14:26 GMT

Dewey, Chetham & Howe <spamAT@wjsavagedot.com> dixit:
>On 19 Oct 2004 00:45:55 GMT, jim_breen@hotmail.com wrote:
>>I suspect the stumbling block is (a) above. First catch your
>>authenticated source.

>Amen (or is that a-MEN?)

>a) is the biggie. I keep hearing rumor of an NHK pitch-accent
>dictionary. But then you have to decide to discriminate against
>Kansai pronunciation (where the accent of 'rain' and 'candy' is the
>opposite of Kanto dialect.). And is NHK a sufficiently 'authenticated
>source' to spend the time/effort/resources to mine and convert the
>data?

Well, first get your NHK dictionary and clear any copyright aspects.

Also you have context. Consider the pitch used in the name
of the prefecture $BD9Ln(B. Is it same in both $BD9Ln(B (solo) and in
$BD9Ln8)(B? 

-- 
Jim Breen        http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/
Computer Science & Software Engineering,
Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia 
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