“The main characteristic regarding accent in Japanese is that the highest accent is on the penult.”

“If the ultima is long, and if the penult is accented, then it must be acute.”

“Stress is placed on the penult if it is long and on the antepenult if the penult is short.”

“The accent never falls on the last syllable of a word, but the addition of a monosyllabic demonstrative or locative suffix shifts it so that it falls, often strongly, on the penultimate of the resulting complete word.”

“Our Lutheran concern for the ultimates has allowed us to neglect some of the penultimates, failing to stress the total implications of that ultimate Gospel.”