Cambridge/London: The MIT Press, 1986 — 329 p. — ISBN 0-262-12111-5
History of Serbocroatian AccentologyThe Earliest Descriptions of Serbocroatian Word Accents
The Treatment of Accents by Vuk Karadžić
Descriptions of Serbocroatian Accents Published before 1876
The Contribution of Leonhard Masing
Reaction to Masing’s Views
Further Developments in Serbocroatian Accentology up to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Serbocroatian Accentology in the First Decades of the Twentieth Century
Establishment of Standardized Terminology
Recent Nonexperimental Treatments of Serbocroatian Accents
Word ProsodyAccentual Patterns in Standard Serbocroatian
Fundamental Frequency Patterns
Intensity Patterns
Duration
Vowel Quality in Relation to the Prosodic System
Prosodic Characteristics of Words
The Relationship between Accentuation and Juncture
Word Accents in Three Dialects outside the Neoštokavian Linguistic Area
Listening Tests
Experimental Research Concerning Word Tone by Other Scholars
Summary of Production and Perception of Word Accents
Accentual Words and Accentual Measures
Re-evaluation of Pre-experimental Views Concerning Word Accents
Sentence ProsodyMethod, Materials, and Informants
Accentual Patterns in Words in Various Positions within a Sentence
Characteristics of Sentence Intonation
Experimental Research on Sentence Intonation in Serbocroatian by Other Scholars
The Relationship between Sentence Intonation and Word Accents
Phonological AnalysisHistory of the Problem
Discussion and Conclusions
Appendix A: List of Test Words
Appendix B: List of Test Words
Appendix C: List of Recorded Sentences
Notes
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index