Japanese Phonetics Episode 73—LIVE! (Patreon)

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Good evening Patrons! The seventy-third episode of Japanese Phonetics is live! In this lesson we explore pitch-accent change in adverbial counters. Incidentally, the point I wanted to cover at the end of the video deals with adverbial pitch transformation in the 尾高 variants of the  universal counters (二つ、三つ, etc.), as well as the number '10' from this universal counter group (十, read as とお). The academic literature (Labrune 2012, NHK 2016, and Kindaichi and Akinaga 2014) seems to indicate that said counters also always undergo 平板 transformation when being used as an adverb, and we actually touched a bit on this in lesson 65 while showing how in the sentence 椅子が二つあります  the pitch stays high between the counter 二つ, and the verb あります. That said, we didn't do so explicitly in the context of "adverbial counters"—we'll do this in the future after first looking at some more practical topics. 

As always, if you have any questions or concerns with regards to this lesson, please don't hesitate to leave a comment below. I'll be responding to all comments (including those from other posts) and messages in the next few days. Thank you very much for your continued support, and good luck with your Japanese studies!

Best from Beppu,

Dogen