Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I - Thematic Chapters -- 1. Word accent -- 2. Stress domains -- 3. The rhythmic organization of compounds and -- phrases -- 4. Word prosody and intonation -- 5. The phonetic manifestation of word -- stress -- 6. Diachronic prosody -- Part II - Case Studies -- 7. A survey of word prosodic systems of European -- languages -- 8. Wordstress in West-Germanic and North-Germanic -- languages -- 9. Word tone in Germanic languages -- 10. Stress in the Romance languages -- 11. Slavic languages -- 12. Baltic languages -- 13. Greek word accent -- 14. Basque accentuation -- 15. Caucasian: Daghestanian languages -- Backmatter