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The purpose of this paper is to reveal the word accent pattern of the Jeju dialect in Korean and determines what differences there are in the word accent patterns between Jeju dialect speakers having lived on the Jeju island only and those having lived in Osaka, Japan after moving from Jeju to Osaka in their twenties. This acoustic phonetics-based research shows that the bisyllabic words have 2-1 pitch accent pattern, while the trisyllabic words 1-2-1 pattern and the quadrisyllabic words 1-2-1-1 (the syllable with highest pitch is labelled for 2, while the rests for 1). In addition, it is shown that there is little difference in the word accent patterns not only between the two Jeju dialect speaker groups living in Jeju and Osaka but also between male and female speakers.