44 The Iambic – Trochaic Law Brett
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In the development of metrical stress theory, several influential approaches (Hayes 1985, 1987, 1995; McCarthy and Prince 1986; Prince 1990) have employed the Iambic– Trochaic Law (ITL) to provide extralinguistic grounding for an account of the differences between iambic and trochaic stress systems (see also chapter 39: stress: phonotactic and phonetic evidence; chapter 40: the foot; chapter 41: the representation of word stress). The ITL, given in (1), is a statement about the naturalness of two types of rhythmic groupings in two different contexts. According to the ITL, sequences of elements that contrast in intensity most naturally divide into groups with trochaic prominence, and sequences of elements that contrast in duration most naturally divide into groups with iambic prominence.
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