CONTENTS -- 1. Some prosodic properties of South-East Norwegian flight attendant speech 9 -- Jardar Eggesbø Abrahamsen -- 2. Prosodic features of compound words in some Southwestern dialects of Swedish in Finland 19 -- Eija Aho -- 3. Swedish and German intonation in confirmations and assertions 25 -- Gilbert Ambrazaitis -- 4. Prosody of discontinuous noun phrases in Finnish 37 -- Anja Arnhold -- 5. The realization of Estonian quantity characteristics in spontaneous speech 49 -- Eva Liina Asu, Pärtel Lippus, Pire Teras, Tuuli Tuisk -- 6. Prosodic features of very short utterances in dialogue 57 -- Jens Edlund, Mattias Heldner, Antoine Pelcé -- 7. Modelling intonational variation in Swedish: two reports from the SIMULEKT project 69 -- Laura Enflo, Susanne Schötz, Gösta Bruce, Björn Granström, Jonas Beskow -- 8. Phonological and grammatical informative value in an intonation unit 79 -- M. Carmen Fernández Leal -- 9. Development of prosodic models for a southern Swedish clustergen voice for speech synthesis 87 -- Johan Frid -- 10. Prosodic features in the vicinity of silences and overlaps 95 -- Mattias Heldner, Jens Edlund, Kornel Laskowski, Antoine Pelcé -- 11. Micro-prosodic consonantal effects on macro-intonation 107 -- Antti Iivonen, Tapio Seppänen, Kai Noponen, Juhani Toivanen -- 12. A multilingual 3D vowel chart for monophthongs based on formants 117 -- Toshiko Isei-Jaakkola, Takatoshi Naka, Keikichi Hirose -- 13. Intonation units in Russian spontaneous speech spoken by Finnish Russian language learners 127 -- Hanna Kärkkäinen -- 14. Cross-language differences in the production of phrasal prominence in Norwegian and German 139 -- Jacques Koreman, Bistra Andreeva, William J. Barry, Rein Ove Sikveland, Wim van Dommelen -- 15. Regional variation in the perception of Estonian quantity 151 -- Pärtel Lippus, Karl Pajusalu.

16. CriaExperimento: obtaining data about speech perception from internet 159 -- Ana Cristina Fricke Matte, Cecilio Cosac Fráguas, Rubens Takiguti Ribeiro -- 17. Initiality accents in Central Swedish 167 -- Sara Myrberg -- 18. Coupled oscillator model for speech timing: overview and examples 179 -- Michael O'Dell, Tommi Nieminen -- 19. Comparison of prosodic features in Swedish and Finnish IDS/ADS speech 191 -- Okko Räsänen, Toomas Altosaar, Unto K. Laine -- 20. The morphological status of accent 2 in North Germanic simplex forms 205 -- Tomas Riad -- 21. The characteristics of stød in Livonian 217 -- Pire Teras, Tuuli Tuisk -- 22. Context affects the prosody of second language speech: an exploratory study of Finnish English 227 -- Juhani Toivanen -- 23. Native and non-native identification of Norwegian word tones 237 -- Wim van Dommelen, Olaf Husby -- 24. Prosodic model for Russian 249 -- Nina B. Volskaya, Pavel A. Skrelin -- 25. Correspondences between KIM-based symbolic prosodic labels and parameters of the Fujisaki model 261 -- Hartmut R. Pfitzinger, Hansjörg Mixdorff, Benno Peters -- References 273 -- List of Contributors 295.