Editing Lithuanian language (section)

===Pitch accent===
{{Main|Lithuanian accentuation}}
The Lithuanian prosodic system is characterized by free accent and distinctive quantity (i.e. [[syllable weight]]). The word prosody of Lithuanian is sometimes described as a restricted [[tone (linguistics)|tone]] system, also called a [[pitch accent]] system.<ref name="tone">{{Cite conference |last1=Dogil |first1=Grzegorz |last2=Möhler |first2=Gregor |date=1998 |title=Phonetic Invariance and Phonological Stability: Lithuanian Pitch Accents |url=https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/icslp_1998/i98_0206.html |conference=5th International Conference on Spoken Language Processing, Sydney, Australia, November 30 – December 4, 1998 |access-date=27 May 2021 |archive-date=2 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210802002227/https://www.isca-speech.org/archive/icslp_1998/i98_0206.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> In Lithuanian, [[lexical word]]s contain a single syllable that is prominent or stressed. Among those, [[heavy syllable]]s – that is, those containing a [[long vowel]], [[diphthong]], or a [[sonorant]] coda – bear either one of two tones: a falling (or ''acute tone'') or a rising (or ''circumflex tone''). Light syllables (syllables with short vowels and optionally also [[obstruent]] codas) do not have the two-way contrast of heavy syllables.