List of Figures List of Tables List of Appendixes List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: English Word Stress: Theories, Data and Variation - Eiji Yamada, Anne Przewozny, Jean-Michel Fournier and Nicolas Ballier 1. On the Treatment of English Word Stress within the Generative Tradition: History, Concepts and Debates - Jacques Durand and Eiji Yamada 2. English Word Stress and the Guierrian School - Quentin Dabouis, Jean-Michel Fournier, Pierre Fournier and Marjolaine Martin 3. Stress Placement in Etymologically Prefixed Disyllabic Noun/Verb Pairs Revisited: A Semantic and Diachronic Approach - Jérémy Castanier 4. English Phonology and the Literate Speaker: Some Implications for Lexical Stress - Quentin Dabouis 5. The Stress Patterns of English Verbs: Syllable Weight and Morphology - Quentin Dabouis and Jean-Michel Fournier 6. Lexical Stress in Varieties of Australian English: A Corpus-Based Exploration - Anne Przewozny and Marjolaine Martin 7. Melodic Complexity and Lexical Stress in Singapore English: An Experimental Study - Gabor Turcsan and Oriana Reid-Collins 8.

Input Optimization and Lexical Stress in English - Michael Hammond 9. A Solution to Theoretical Shortcomings in the Stress Assignment of Words in English - Eiji Yamada Index.