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In words with more than one mora, there are three types of endings in the
standard Tokyo dialect:

  1. ...H(H)
  2. ...H(L)
  3. ...L(L)

where H/L mean High-Low pitch, and the parentheses apply to any attached
particle.

For a word with only one mora, like 戸 or 歯, what are the possible patterns for
the attached particle? Are any of the following four patterns impossible?

  1. H(H)
  2. H(L)
  3. L(H)
  4. L(L)
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pitch-accent morae
Pitch Accent for Single-Mora Words
There is always a change in pitch after the first mora in the standard Tokyo
dialect. So the only patterns that work in that dialect are

  * [歯が]{HL} H(L)
  * [名が]{LH} L(H)

Regarding other dialects (like Kansai-ben), I know next to nothing.
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The answer given above is obviously wrong, the rule about the change of pitch
is valid only inside the same word, so it cannot apply to monomoraic words.
Thus, heiban words have pattern L(L), e.g. 胃が accented words are H(L), e.g.
絵が. Pattern L(H) is absurd in Tokyo Japanese.
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