Function words are also common, generally short, and usually unaccented in production.
This tonal contour is reported for words that are in unaccented position within the intonational phrase.
Among other criteria that mark phrasal boundaries is the pitch of unaccented syllables.
Enhancing the faithfulness properties of unaccented morphemes will not help in such contexts, as shown below.
Expletive and substitute der are always unaccented and substitutable by weak her.
In other words, it begins with an unaccented note that is not part of the first full bar.
If a pitch change occurs on unaccented syllables, it can be taken as an indicator of an intonation group boundary.
In a variety of languages, the behaviour of unaccented words is duplicated by the behaviour of words with dominant unaccented affixes.
