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For example, as seen in 毎朝. Are you always free to choose between the two pitch accents, is it based on sentence context, or just what sounds right in a given sentence?

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Usually it’s speaker dependent rather than situation dependent, but not always.

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It can also be a dialect thing. It really just depends on the word itself

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Some words just have more than one way of being said - Japan is big, and even inside of Tokyo, there are variations :)

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