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Consider the sentence

> 鈴木さんは& **見た目より** 若く見えますね。
>
> Mr. Suzuki's not as old as he looks.

According to my dictionary:

  * 見た目 has Atamadaka pitch
  * より is a particle (so should be down-pitched here)

Yet according to [OJAD](https://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad/phrasing/index)
placing these two words together causes 見た目 to have two accents(!?):

> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTFpz.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/QTFpz.png)

As far as I knew, Japanese words can never have more than one accent?

**Question:** Is there something deep going on here, or is this just OJAD
getting it wrong?
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Pitch of 「見た目より」
1. Your dictionary is outdated, 見た目 is heiban in modern Japanese.

  2. OJAD is also wrong, it’s parsing it as two separate words 見た+目 (the eye which saw).

It should be みためよ＼り.
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