Abstract
Pitch pattern is one of the prosodic characteristics of language. Pitch pattern in many languages affects various linguistic aspects, such as word meaning, sentence structure and prominence. Consequently, teaching good pitch pattern in a second language promotes development of good communication skills in the learner’s second language. In this paper, I will introduce and evaluate three pitch pattern notation systems in Japanese which transcribe the Japanese pitch pattern not only at the word level, but also at the sentence level.
