Papers in this volume include: "The Role of Tone in Some Cushitic Languages" (David L. Appleyard); "Downdrift in a Tone Language with Four Tone Levels" (G. N. Clements); "Non-Pitch Exponents of Accent and Structure in Japanese" (John Coleman); "Clause Structure and Tone in Sandawe" (Edward D. Elderkin); "Tone and Accent in the Qafar Noun" (R. J. Hayward); "Glides and Phonological Change in Mombasan Swahili" (John Kelly); Tone Spacing" (Ian Maddieson); "A Performance of a Swahili Poem Analysed" (Joan Maw); "Pitch, Loudness, and Turn Regulation in Akan Conversation" (Samuel Gyasi Obeng); "Pharyngeal Fricatives, and Pike's 'Fricative' and 'Frictional' Categories" (R. K. Sprigg); "A Study of Quantity in Mestreechs" (L. van Buuren); and "Professor Jack Carnochan: Biographical Note" (G. Furniss and P. J. Jaggar). (MSE)