The Iambic Trochaic Law in speech: The case of Japanese

Prior research on the ITL in tone sequences showed that in Japanese, at least some listeners have a long-first preference, and hear longer tones as group-initial, while English listeners usually show the long-last effect originally observed by Bolton (1894). This experiments tries to replicate this difference in speech, and furthermore test whether the differences between Japanese and English are due to differences in prominence perception or to differences in grouping perception.