中高型

Japanese
Kanji in this term
中 高 型
なか
Grade: 1		 たか > だか
Grade: 2		 かた > がた
Grade: 5
kun’yomi

Etymology

Compound of 中高 (nakadaka, “middle high”) +‎ 型 (kata, “form”), in reference to one of the middle morae of the word having the accent, followed by the downstep.[1] The kata changes to gata as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

Pronunciation
  • (Tokyo) なかだかがた [nàkádákágátá] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA(key): [na̠ka̠da̠ka̠ɡa̠ta̠]

Noun

中(なか)高(だか)型(がた) • (nakadakagata) 

  1. a pitch accent pattern in Japanese where the first mora is low pitch, then the pitch is high until the accented mora, followed by an immediate downstep with the remaining syllables having low pitch
    Examples:

See also

References
  1. “中高型”, in デジタル大辞泉 [Digital Daijisen]‎ (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, updated roughly every four months
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