pitch-accent v0.0.1

Pitch Accent

A library to predict pitch accent in Japanese.

Usage

For users

Installation:

yarn install pitch-accent

Usage:

import { solve } from "pitch-accent";

solve([
  { surface: 'シン', pos: 'noun', accent: 1 },
  { surface: 'タマネギ', pos: 'noun', accent: 3 },
])
// 5

solve([
  { surface: 'シン', pos: 'noun', accent: 1 },
  { surface: 'ヨコハマ', pos: 'noun', accent: 0 },
]);
// 3

For contributors

# Install deps
yarn install

# Run
yarn start

Licence

pitch-accent is copyrighted free software by Jamie Birch, and is released under any of the BSD, LGPL, or GPL licences (see the files LICENCE-BSD.txt, LICENCE-LGPL.txt, and LICENCE-GPL.txt, respectively).

Algorithms used in this program are based on @PhoneticsKeio's excellent review:

Kawahara, Shigeto. "11 The phonology of Japanese accent". Handbook of Japanese Phonetics and Phonology, edited by Haruo Kubozono, Berlin, München, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2015, pp. 445-492. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511984.445