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Also from what I understand, certain homophones are differentiated in practice by differing accenting (raising/lowering) in speech. This is however region speci

by enqk 14y ago

Also from what I understand, certain homophones are differentiated in practice by differing accenting (raising/lowering) in speech. This is however region specific.

w1ntermute 14y ago
This is known as pitch accent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_pitch_accent