Research on Japanese prosody, especially on the pitch accent system of the language, has
for a long time found that a single domain “phonological phrase” is not sufficient. Rather, two
domains need to be distinguished, which go by various names (Minor vs. Major Phrase,
Accentual vs. Intermediate Phrase). While empirically well-founded, these developments,
together with similar findings in other languages, have resulted in a dissolution of the
originally tightly organized universal prosodic hierarchy into a collection of many prosodic …