No book has ever been published on tonal change and neutralization, two closely related topics in tonal phonology. This will be the first book to be devoted to

This is the first comprehensive work on word and sentence prosody in Koshikijima Japanese, a dialect of Japanese not fully documented in the literature. It is a

Explores the nature of stress and accent patterns in natural language using a diverse range of theories, methods and data.

"This volume brings together novel, original studies on prosody and prosodic interfaces. It consists of fifteen chapters, some of which look at word prosody and