Does the honorific prefix お/ご have an effect on pitch accent?

For example, can it make an unaccented word accented or an accented word
unaccented?

If this prefix does have an effect on pitch accent, what are the rules?
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Does the honorific prefix お/ご have an effect on pitch accent?
My favourite kind of answer: just quoting a huge chunk of Martin's _A Referece
Grammar of Japanese_. But it takes nine main rules (save exceptions) and three
pages (pp. 333-5), so I summarize:

> (1) Generally, words become unstressed under [御]{お}, unless said otherwise
> below.
>
> (2) Words which are 頭高 and have beyond one syllable normally retain their
> accent: [かし]{HL} > [おかし]{LHL}. The number of exceptions which delete accent
> instead is small, but many of those (such as [なか]{HL} > [おなか]{LHH}, [まえ]{HL}
> > [おまえ]{LHH}) are probably better treated as separate words.
>
> (3) Here Martin puts a huge list of exceptions with any kinds of
> unpredictable jumps.
>
> (4) お + truncated noun = accent at the first syllable of the truncated part:
> [ばけもの]{LHHL} > [おばけ]{LHL}.
>
> (5) お + single-morpheme female name = accent remains at the first syllable
> of the name: [ゆき]{HL} > [おゆき]{LHL}.
>
> (6) ご does not change accent {except exceptions: [あんない]{LHHL} >
> [ごあんない]{LHHHH} (案内); [ぼう]{HL} > [ごぼう]{HLL} (坊); [りしょう]{LHHH} >
> [ごりしょう]{LHLLL} (利生)}.
>
> (7) お + na-adjective = no accent (except some, such as 元気, which retain
> their accent).
>
> (8) お + adjective = no acent.
>
> (9) お + 連体形 of a verb is no accent. But お + a derived deverbal noun (which
> is segmentally the same as 連体形 but with a different accent) is treated as a
> noun and thus may have a totally different result.

To conclude: it's a mess.
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