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I am indebted to Professors Irmengard Rauch (University of California at Berkeley) and Jean-Michel Fournier (l’Université François-Rabelais, Tours), who reviewed this monograph for the Language in Performance series. It is difficult to say how many mistakes, inadequacies, inconsistencies, etc., this book would contain if not for, in particular, Prof. Fournier’s thorough critique of an earlier version of this manuscript. All remaining errors are, of course, entirely my own responsibility!

My sincere gratitude goes also to the editor of the Language in Performance series, Professor Rainer Schulze (Leibniz Universität Hannover), whose comments on the structure of the book have made it more reader-friendly. To Prof. Schulze, my thanks are also due for adding this title to the Language in Performance series!

I also thank 1) Professors Ulrich Busse and Alexander Brock (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), for inviting me to present parts of this research in their Forschungskolloquium in October 2016; 2) the UC Berkeley Library (represented by Lydia Petersen), for providing access to its vast resources, without which I would have been unable to write this book; 3) Samantha Tanner, whose native-speaker competence was of great help during the earlier stages of this project back in 2014; and 4) a number of people—colleagues, family, and friends—with whom I had the pleasure of discussing this topic during the many years I spent studying English stress. Some of these people include, in alphabetical order, Denis Balagurov, Sergei Danilov, Yuri Dyomin, Tibaut Houzanme, Natalia Peters, Karen Sullivan, and Viktor Treshchev.

For their moral support and much more, I thank my parents Boris and Natalia Tokar. The book is dedicated to them!