Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: How to conceptualize similarities between language and music -- Pitch units in music and speech prosody -- Melody in speech and music -- A constraint-based approach to structuring language and music: Towards a roadmap for comparing language and music cross-culturally -- Word stress perception by congenital amusics -- Rhythmic structure - parallels between language and music -- Alignment of prosodic weight and musical length in Finnish vocal music textsetting -- Metrical mapping in text-setting: Empirical analysis and grammatical implementation -- Prominence alignment in English and Turkish songs: Implications for word prosodic typology -- Bridging speech and music - A neural common ground perspective on prosody -- Index