TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER 1. DEFINING ACCENT -- 1.1 Differentiating accent from tone -- 1.2 Relating accent to intonation -- CHAPTER 2. ACCENT SYSTEMS AND TONE SYSTEMS -- 2.1. Historical overview -- 2.2. Characteristic differences between accent and tone -- CHAPTER 3. ACCENT AND INTONATION -- 3.1. Stress levels -- 3.2. Tonetic stress marks -- 3.3. Early experimental evidence -- 3.4. Pitch-accent theory -- 3.5. Recent experimental evidence -- 3.6. Metrical theory -- 3.7. The international contour in metrical theory -- 3.8. The metrical tree -- 3.9. The metrical grid -- 3.10. Hierarchical structures in other languages -- CHAPTER 4. FUNDAMENTAL FREQUENCY AND PITCH -- 4.1. Signals with stationary fundamental frequency and pitch -- 4.2. Signals with changing fundamental frequency and pitch -- 4.3. Segmental effects on fundamental frequency and pitch -- CHAPTER 5. INTENSITY, DURATION, AND LOUDNESS -- 5.1. The loudness function -- 5.2. Intrinsic duration, intensity, and loudness -- CHAPTER 6. ACOUSTIC CORRELATES OF ACCENT IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE -- 6.1. Methods -- 6.2. Results -- 6.3. Comparison with earlier studies -- 6.4. Hierarchies of acoustic correlates of accent -- CHAPTER 7. PERCEPTUAL CUES TO ACCENT IN ENGLISH AND JAPANESE -- 7.1. Methods -- 7.2. Results -- 7.3. Discussion -- 7.4. Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C.