意味的に pitch accent


I always hear 意味: いみ{HL} and 意味的に: いみてきに{LHHHH}. And I'm under the impression
的に heibanfies words.

I think I hear 意味的に いみてきに{HLLLL} [here](https://youtu.be/9ZTNlaN0VEk?t=532),
and wonder why. This guy seems to be a native speaking professional Japanese
teacher, which makes it all the more puzzling.




This is いみてきに＼は, you are just misinterpreting it. Learners often hear ghost
accents when speakers add "tension" into their voice, like is being done here.

Basically, since there is so much tension coming from the emphasis he is
putting on the phrase (i.e., he starts the phrase very very high in his vocal
range, with his vocal chords tensed), it would be physically difficult for him
to exactly maintain the same pitch throughout the word, let alone do a clean
LHHHHL (and it would sound _very_ weird if he did somehow manage to do this so
high in his vocal range), so it naturally goes down in a few spots before the
accent, but they do not sound like accents, it's just release of tension.

