Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Affiliations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Issues in the Representation of Tonal Register -- Representation of Downstep in Dschang Bamileke -- Register Tones and Tonal Geometry -- In Defense of a Metrical Theory of Intonational Downstep -- Spreading and Downstep: Prosodic Government in Tone Languages -- Dschang and Ebrie as Akan-type Total Downstep Languages -- Tonal Register in East Asian Languages -- Index of Authors -- Index of Languages -- Index of Subjects -- 279-280