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As mentioned above,Japanese accent is characterized by pitch,
not by stress as is often observed in Western languages.
In our case, only Japanese proper names are synthesized,
and so power specification of syllables of a word will follow a simple rule
that the beginning one has the strongest power and power falls
towards to the end.
This means that power features can also be represented
by position information and mora length.
Jin'ichi Murakami
2000-01-17