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Anonymous /lit/24540407#24555103
7/16/2025, 4:57:30 PM
>>24555009
I assume you mean in θεά. I was applying the rules of Japanese pitch accent. It might not be correct in Greek, but remember also that the Japanese plotting system just consists of discrete low and high points, and is a simplification of the actual pitch. My understanding of Japanese pitch accent (based on a handful of Youtube videos) is that they consider the first mora high or low. If the first mora is accented, it is high, and the remaining moras are all marked low. If the the accent is later in the word, the first mora is marked low, the following moras until the accent are marked high, and the moras after the accent are marked low. That only tells part of the story. The second video I posted explains that words tend to rise to the accented mora and drop off after that. Applied to θεά, even though both moras of ά are marked high, there can still be an internal rise.

I checked a few examples of recitations I could find on YouTube. To my ears, it seems that they do rise mostly on the first mora of ά, with possibly a less pronounced rise into the second mora.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAkQrwfvL1U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXtLoGORAq0&t=539

This one is less clear. I think he rises slightly on the first mora of α, but then his voice collapses into breathiness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KkZH6hWyU