Introduction -- The relationship between tone and vowel length in two neighboring Dutch Limburgian dialects -- Prosodic change in progress: from quantity language to accent language -- Prosodic change from tone to vowel length in Korean -- Diachrony of the Scandinavian accent typology -- Kaluza's Law and the progress of Old English metrics -- Middle English stress doubles: New evidence from Chaucer's meter -- Constraining S and satisfying fit -- From phrase-final to post-initial accent in western Basque -- Swiss German vowel length through time -- The prosodic structure of prefixed words in the history of West Germanic -- Left-hand word-stress in the history of English -- Why preantepenultimate stress in Latin requires an OT-account -- From prosody to place: The development of prosodic contrasts into place of articulation contrast in the history of Miogliola -- Language index -- Subject index.