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At [3:03](https://youtu.be/bRSOBvEKI8E?t=183) the speaker says

> この人は

  * I could be wrong, but it sounds like she's saying this as "koNOHITOWA" rather than "koNOHITOwa".
  * According to my bilingual dictionary, Heiban is not an acceptable pitch accent for この人. Instead it should be either "koNOHITOwa" or "koNOhitowa".

**Question:** Assuming I'm right above, can Odaka words sometimes become
Heiban when the contrastive は is used? E.g. if the speaker wants to say "as
for _this_ person (as opposed to these others)...", will the は necessarily
rise in pitch?
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nuances particle-は pitch-accent intonation
Does the contrastive は always rise in pitch?
She says このひとは{LHLLH}.

この＼ひと is the standard accent for that word/phrase, so there is nothing unusual
there.

As for the raised は, you can raise any particle to make it sound emphasized,
though I would consider this to be in the realm of intonation as opposed to
pitch accent (because it is not lexical).

Such an intonation pattern is not required for a は to be the contrastive は,
but it does often cooccur with it.
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