Re: Pitch

> For polysyllabic words, it has these rules:
>
>     1) There's one and only one pitch change, either a
>        drop or a rise.
>     2) The pitch change appears between two syllables.
>     3) If the pitch change appears after the N-th syllable,
>        there must be at least N syllables after it.
>
> So you can have HL, LH, HLL, LHH, but not LLH or HHL
> or LHL or HLH. What is this?
Are there LLHH, HHLL words?

Are there long vowels?

If the answers to both questions be "no",
the system could be described as
pitch accent fixed at the first mora.

     P.A.

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