Kindaichi (1957): " The Japanese pitch, in short, works more to give unity to a word than to distinguish one word from another."

Atzo irakurtzen genuén Kindaichi-ren aipu bat (1957) non autoreak oinarritzen zuén japonesaren ritmoa an alternantzia artén bi tonu, bata altuagoa eta bestea baxuagoa (bidéz azentu tonalak,  pitch accents), ordezta an azentuak on intensitatea (stress accents), zein, japonieran, reservatuko lirakén ki enfasi bereziak. 

Kontu hau guztia ez delarik hain argia (adibidez ez da hain evidentea hóri diferentzia artén azentu tonala eta indar-azentua), eta gu ere saiatzen ari garelarik ondo ulertzen, ikus daigun gaur Kindaichi-k berak emandako adibide bat, non zehazkiago azaltzen duen nóla funtzionatzen diren japonesaren tonu-aldaketa horiek:

On this basis, we can say that Japanese pitch creates unity by denoting where a word begins and where it ends. 

Take, for example, the sentence: Niwa no sakura mo minna chitte shimatta (The cherry blossoms in the garden have all fallen). The sentence with tone accents will be as follows: niWA NO saKURA MO miNNA chiTTE shiMATTA. Here the low-pitched syllables all indicate superbly the breaks between words. If I may use Arisaka Hideyo's expression, Japanese pitch accent exhibits "the faculty to control" far more than "the faculty to designate." The Japanese pitch, in short, works more to give unity to a word than to distinguish one word from another. [Kindaichi, 1957:123]

Beraz, interpretatzen dugunez, agertuko dira tonu-aldaketak artén unitate ritmiko-semantiko ezberdinak (adibidean, sintagma txiki horietako bakoitza amaitzen dá goian), horrela aditzera emanez ze hor amaitu da unitate ritmiko-semantiko bat, eta hasi behar dela hurrengoa.

Kindaichi-k esaten digunez, tonu horiek gehienbat balioko luketé ki emán batasuna ki unitate ritmiko ezberdinak, zein, bestalde, hala euren barruan nola euren artean izanen lirakén uniformeak respektu intensitatea, akaso horrela sortuz sensazio bat on monotonia diskursiboa, non, enfasi berezirik ezean, hitz guztiek izanen dutén ber indarra. [3109]