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'Weak' Units and Accent Shift

The prosodic unit of the Standard Tokyo Japanese accent had traditionally been regarded as the mora. Nowadays, however, many researchers describe the accent system in terms of the syllable, placing the system as ‘mora-counting syllable language’, or ‘moracounting syllable-accent language’, precisely. In this presentation, I prescribe the prosodic unit once again as the mora, from a new point of view: a ‘weak’ unit followed by the accent shift. I propose that Standard Japanese is a “mora-counting mora-accent language”, with the moraic phonemes as ‘weak’. I argue this idea based on the data from a number of Japanese dialects and Latin.