We investigated how the perception of Dutch whispered boundary tones depends on the presence of an accent in the utterance-final word, i.e. the boundary tone landing site. Listeners performed near ceiling in normal speech, whereas the same listeners’ performance dropped about 30% in whisper, while processing speed decreased in whisper compared to normal speech. Accent position furthermore influenced boundary tone perception. Initial-stress words showed a question bias that affected recognition of that speech act when accent and boundary tone did not coincide. On final-stress words, in which boundary tone and accent coincided, statements and questions were identified equally well.