Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Focus, mode and the nucleus -- 2. From focus to sentence accent: A rule for the assignment of sentence accents in Dutch -- 3. The intonation of'George and Mildred': Post-nuclear generalisations -- 4. Testing the reality of focus domains -- 5. Idiomaticity in sentence accent location in English and Dutch -- 6. A semantic analysis of the nuclear tones of English -- 8. Stress shift and the nucleus -- 9. Stress shift in Dutch as a rhetorical device -- Author index -- Summary in Dutch -- Curriculum vitae