Pitch Accent for Single-Mora Words In words with more than one mora, there are three types of endings in the standard Tokyo dialect: 1. ...H(H) 2. ...H(L) 3. ...L(L) where H/L mean High-Low pitch, and the parentheses apply to any attached particle. For a word with only one mora, like or , what are the possible patterns for the attached particle? Are any of the following four patterns impossible? 1. H(H) 2. H(L) 3. L(H) 4. L(L)

There is always a change in pitch after the first mora in the standard Tokyo dialect. So the only patterns that work in that dialect are

* []{HL} H(L)
* []{LH} L(H)



Regarding other dialects (like Kansai-ben), I know next to nothing.