Preface -- Contributors' addresses -- Introduction: Phonological structure and its role in language processing -- Stem and word in Sino-Japanese -- Syllable, mora and accent -- Speech segmentation and phonological structure -- When is a syllable not a syllable? -- Phoneme/syllable perception and the temporal structure of speech -- The role of suprasegmentals in speech perception and acquisition -- The role of accent in speech perception -- Speech segmentation by Japanese listeners -- The psychological reality of speech units in Japanese -- The roles of phonological and orthographic code in word stem completion -- Lexical access in continuous speech: Language-specific realisations of a universal model -- Index.