Pavel Iosad is Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He joined the Department of Linguistics and English Language as Lecturer in Theoretical Phonology in 2013. Prior to coming to Edinburgh, he was Lecturer in Language and Linguistics at the University of Ulster. He trained at Moscow State University and the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway.Björn Köhnlein is an Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the Ohio State University, having previously held a position as Assistant Professor at Leiden University. His core expertise is phonology - particularly interactions of metrical structure, (intonational) tone, and segmental structure - and its interfaces with phonetics and morphology, from both a synchronic and a diachronic typological perspective.

• Series preface List of figures List of tables List of contributors 1: Pavel Iosad and Björn Köhnlein: Introduction 2: José Ignacio Hualde, Ander Beristain, and Ane Icardo Isasa: Word-prosodic constraints and bidialectalism in Basque 3: Rachel Fournier and Carlos Gussenhoven: Context-specific tonoexodus in the dialect of Roermond 4: Draga Zec and Elizabeth Zsiga: The interplay of lexical and intonational tones in Serbian 5: Nina Hagen Kaldhol and Sverre Stausland Johnsen: There is no 'one High tone per word' rule in Somali 6: Patrik Bye: Lexical accent and intonation in Peninsular North Germanic pragmatics, phonology, geography, history 7: Björn Köhnlein and Yuhong Zhu: A metrical analysis of prosodically conditioned stem allomorphy in Uspanteko 8: Harry van der Hulst: Accents and how to get rid of them (or not) 9: Björn Köhnlein and Pavel Iosad: Notes on theoretical approaches to tonal accent References Index