noun
nakadaka-gata accent pattern; mid-high accent pattern
Linguistic term for a Japanese pitch accent pattern where the pitch rises after the first mora and then falls before the last mora, i.e., the accent kernel is somewhere in the middle of the word.
「たまご」は中高型のアクセントで発音される。
"Tamago" is pronounced with a nakadaka-gata accent pattern.
中高
In nakadaka-gata words, the accent kernel is located in the middle of the word.
Atamadaka-gata (head-high type) has a pitch fall after the first mora; nakadaka-gata has the fall later.
Odaka-gata (tail-high type) has a pitch fall after the last mora; nakadaka-gata has the fall before the last mora.
Compound of 中 (naka, 'middle'), 高 (daka, 'high'), and 型 (gata, 'pattern'). The term describes the location of the accent kernel within a word.