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Bjornsdottirs . @bjornsdottirs,

towards a coherent definition of «pitch accent»

so it's been well known that «pitch accent» as thought of is not a thing, it's a useful non-entity, it's the thing norwegian, swedish, ancient greek and some basque dialects as well as most japanese dialects all have in common. someone on reddit came up with N-type and J-type. https://www.reddit.com/r/conlangs/comments/sp6anw/pitch_accents/hwd5fy4/

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