Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Compounds, stress and prominence: concepts and issues -- 3 The corpus -- 4 Perception of compound prominence patterns -- 5 Acoustic correlates of compound prominence -- 6 Classification and prediction of compound prominence patterns -- 7 What determines compound prominence patterns? -- 8 Within- and across-speaker variation -- 9 Conclusion -- A Introduction to linear regression and mixed-effects models -- B NOUN + NOUN compounds used in the variability study -- References