Prominent words and syllables are frequently conveyed in speech communication by a complex of multimodal signals involving both speech (such as focal pitch accents) and gesture (such as head nods and eyebrow movement). This study presents data concerning the frequency and temporal organization of head and eyebrow gestures and accented syllables obtained from two different data sources: te levision newsreading and spontaneous dialogue. The television corpus comprises 31 brief newsreadings from Swedish Television representing four news anchors (two female, two male) containing 986 words (6.5 minutes). It was annotated for focal accents and h ead and eyebrow beats, independently by three annotators. A total of 233 head movements and 67 eyebrow movements were annotated. 165 head movements (71%) occurred with a focally accented stressed syllable. Two additional independent annotators marked the t emporal location of the eyebrow movement related to the head movement. The locations of 51 eyebrow movements were agreed upon (Cohen’s Unweighted Kappa 0.75) with 57% preceding, 41% simultaneous with, and 2% following the head movement. For the femalespontaneous speech analysis, five male and two male-- minute random excerpts of four dialogues (two male pairs) were taken from the Spontal corpus of Swedish dialogue, a database of unrestricted conversation comprised of highquality audio and video r ecordings and motion capture. The motion capture data enabled automatic detection of head movements resulting in a total of 1545 detected nods. Two annotators manually checked the automatic detection and classified the nods as simple or complex resulting i n a total of simple nods. Syllable boundaries were annotated +/1054 one syllable from each simple nod and each syllable was categorized as unaccented, accented or focally accented. Of the 1054 nods, 422 stressed syllables occurred in conjunction with a n od (40%) of which 95 were unaccented, 130 were accented, and 197 had focal accent (Cohen’s Unweighted Kappa 0.60). Only 19% of the simple head nods occurred in conjunction with a focal accent compared to 71% in the newsreading data. Eyebrow movement was an notated for each simple nod resulting in a total of 100 eyebrow movements. The locations of 78 eyebrow movements were agreed upon (Cohen’s Unweighted Kappa 0.54) with 10% preceding, 76% simultaneous with, and 14% following the head movement. These results indicate considerable differences between the two genres. In newsreading, we find a general temporal ordering of multimodal signals for prominence where eyebrow movement precedes head nods with both being anchored to but followed by a focally accented syl lable. In the spontaneous dialogues, while we do find a number of similar instances of multimodal prominence expression, much head and eyebrow movement is not primarily related to prominence but rather has other expressive and communicative functions with gestures frequently assuming the predominant role of prominence signaling.