Table of Contents

1. Contributors; 2. Acknowledgments; 3. Introduction (by Rice, Keren); 4. Part I. TONE; 5. The historical development of tone: A pan-Athabaskan perspective on the phonology; 6. Preface to Michael Krauss' article (by Rice, Keren); 7. Athabaskan Tone (1979) (by Krauss, Michael E.); 8. The historical development of tone: A phonetic perspective; 9. The Phonetics of Athabaskan Tonogenesis (by Kingston, John); 10. Case Studies; 11. On Tone and Length in Taltan (Northern Athabaskan) (by Alderete, John); 12. The Tonology of the Western Apache Noun Stem (by Reuse, Willem J. de); 13. Properties of Tone in Dene Soun'line (by Gessner, Suzanne); 14. Pitch, Tone and Intonation in Tanacross (by Holton, Gary); 15. Part II. PROMINENCE BEYOND TONE; 16. A pan-Athabaskan perspective on stress; 17. How stress shapes the stem-suffix complex in Athabaskan (by Leer, Jeff); 18. Case Studies; 19. Duration, Intonation and Prominence in Apache (by Tuttle, Siri G.); 20. Prominence and the verb stem in Slave (Hare) (by Rice, Keren); 21. A Corpus-based Approach to Tahltan Stress (by Alderete, John); 22. Prosody in two Athabaskan languages of northern British Columbia (by Hargus, Sharon); 23. Index