Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Accent in Tokyo Japanese -- 0. Introductory Remarks -- 1. Accent of Nouns -- 2. Accent Assignment to Compound Nouns and Loan Words -- 2.1. Accent Assignment to Compound Nouns -- 2.2. Accent Assignment in Loan Words -- Chapter 2 Tone, Accent and Lengthening in Nakizin -- 0. Introductory Remarks -- 1. An Outline of the Sound System of Nakizin -- 2. Tonal Properties of Nakizin Verbs -- 3. Vowel Lengthening in Nakizin -- 4. Tonal System of Nakizin Nouns -- 5. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3 The Tonal System of the Babibu Language -- 0. Introductory Remarks -- 1. On the Babibu Language -- 2. An Alternative Analysis of the Babibu Tonal Phenomena -- 3. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 Toward a Theory of Metrical Movement -- 0. Introductory Remarks -- 1. Stress Shift vs. Stress Movement -- 1.1. Case Studies of Stress Shift -- 1.2. Accent Shift in Kumi -- 1.3. More on Kumi Japanese -- 1.4. Accent Shift in Tokyo -- 1.5. Accent Shift in Narada -- 1.6. Accent Shift in Tsuruoka -- 1.7. Summary -- 2. Stress Movement -- 2.1. Accent Movement in Tokyo Japanese -- 2.2. Summary and Comments -- 3. Stress Movement in Nakizin -- 3.1. Movement Analysis of Nakizin Accent -- 3.2. More on Nakizin Accent -- 4. Stress Movement in English -- 4.1. Introductory Remarks -- 4.2. Stress Movement Rules in English -- 4.3. The Compound Stress Rule in English -- 4.4. The Rhythm Rule in English -- 5. Stress Movement in Odawa -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5 Stress Clash, Stress Deletion, and Stress Movement -- 0. Introductory Remarks -- 1. On the Notion of the Stress Clash Hierarchy -- 2. Delete α and Strength Hierarchies -- 3. Stress Deletion in Indonesian -- 3.1. More on Indonesian -- 4. Stress Deletion in Lenakel -- 5. Stress Deletion in Seneca -- 6. Stress Deletion in Spanish -- 7. Stress Deletion and Stress Movement in Polish.

8. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 Stress in Cayuvava and Chugach Altiiq and Their Theoretical Implications -- 0. Introductory Remarks -- 1. On H & V's Analysis of Cayuvava -- 2. An Alternative Analysis -- 3. Theoretical Implications of the Cayuvava Stress System -- 4. On the CA Stress System -- 5. Two Alternative Analyses of the Stress System of CA -- 6. Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 On the Grid simplification Principle and Parameter Settings -- 0. Introductory Remarks -- 1. The Grid Simplification Principle and Conflation -- 2. Remarks on Parameter Settings -- Conclusion -- References -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index.