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At 5m18s, the speaker says

悪いことばかりしています

with pronunciation ことばかり{LHHLL}. Even OJAD agrees with this pronunciation:

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Question: I thought こと was Odaka, so shouldn't this be ことばかり{LHLLL}?

George
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    「[わるいことばかり]{LHLLLHLL}しています。」に聞こえるような気が。。 – chocolate Aug 23 '23 at 06:05
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    Related: https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/66619/7810, especially see my comment. – broccoli forest Aug 23 '23 at 06:37
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    It consists of 悪いこと and ばかり with each pronounced with its own accent contour, not of 悪い and ことばかり. It does no good to check the accent pattern of ことばかり. – aguijonazo Aug 23 '23 at 16:18
  • Thanks for the responses. I'm still a bit confused why the particle ばかり has an accent on its first mora, given it's a particle attached to 悪いこと (taken as a singular word with a downstep before its final mora). So it seems like it should be わるいことばかり{LHLLLLLL} when applying the pitch rules naively? – George Aug 25 '23 at 05:41
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    Unfortunately, that's a mere basic rule for which there're lots of exceptions. See bottom p11 http://corismus.com/intonation/works/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E8%AA%9E%E3%81%AE%E5%8A%A9%E8%A9%9E%E3%83%BB%E5%8A%A9%E5%8B%95%E8%A9%9E%E9%A1%9E%E3%81%AE%E3%82%A2%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%882020MS.pdf – sundowner Aug 31 '23 at 07:44

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