Abstract
In this paper, I will discuss on the four-pattern accent system found in Hadong-gun, Namhaegun and Sacheon-si in the west Gyeongsang province of Korea, and report on data obtained during field work there. In the four-pattern accent system proposed in this paper, only four oppositions exist irrespective of the length of the accentual units. In this paper, I will take Hadong dialect as a representative, and discuss phenomena such as the accents of compound words, the correspondence with the (n+1)-way opposition for n-syllable words seen in Masan dialect accent system, the accents of verbs and adjectives, and others which have not yet considered.
