Machine generated contents note: Preface -- I. Studies in Japanese Phonology -- Yukiko Akasaka and Koichi Tateishi -- Heaviness in Interfaces -- Shosuke Haraguchi -- The Accent of Tsuruoka Japanese Reconsidered -- Takeru Honma -- How should we Represent 'g' in toge in Japanese Underlyingly? -- Haruka Fukazawa and Mafuyu Kitahara -- Domain-Relative Faithfulness and the OCP: Rendaku Revisited -- Haruo Kubozono -- Epenthetic Vowels and Accent in Japanese: Facts and Paradoxes -- Hidetoshi Shiraishi -- Prosodic Structure and Sandhi Phenomena in the Saru Dialect -- of Ainu -- Shin-ichi Tanaka -- The Emergence of the 'Unaccented': Possible Patterns and -- Variations in Japanese Compound Accentuation -- Shohei Yoshida -- An Element-Based Analysis of Affrication in Japanese -- Yuko Z. Yoshida and Hideki Zamma -- The Accent System of the Kyoto Dialect of Japanese -- A Study on Phrasal Patterns and Paradigms -- II. Studies in Japanese Morphology -- Taro Kageyama -- Word Plus: The Intersection of Words and Phrases -- Takayasu Namiki -- Further Evidence in Support of the Righthand Head Rule -- in Japanese -- Tetsuo Nishihara, Jeroen van de Weijer, and Kensuke Nanjo -- Against Headedness in Compound Truncation: -- English Compounds in Japanese -- III. Studies in Contrastive Japanese-English Phonetics -- and Phonology -- Yosihiro Masuya -- Two Different Kinds of Rhythm: Japanese and English -- Noriko Yamane -- sC Clusters as Complex Segments: Evidence from the Contrastive -- Phonology of English and Japanese -- Author Index -- Language Index -- Subject Index -- List of Contributors