Table of contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: Concepts of rhythm -- 1 Grouping, symmetry, and rhythm in language -- 2 Speech rhythms - modelling the groove -- Part 2: Linguistic rhythm and cognition -- 3 The role of default stress patterns in German monolingual and L2 sentence processing -- 4 Stress clash hampers processing of noncanonical structures in reading -- 5 Word prosody in focus and non-focus position: An ERP-study on the interplay of prosodic domains -- 6 Short-term memory in speech perception and prosodic structuring - A syllable span test -- Part 3: Rhythm and grammar in Germanic -- 7 Rhythmic influence on grammar: scope and limitations -- 8 Rhythm's role in genitive construction choice in spoken English -- 9 Rhythmic preferences in morphosyntactic variation and the theory of loser candidates -- 10 Function words in rhythmic optimisation -- 11 Rhythm as a resource to generate phonetic and phonological coherence in lists -- Index.