Production and perception experiments with native speakers of Russian, a free word order language, show that prosody and change in word order are used to mark discourse-prominent constituents. Concurrent application of these cues to prominence is possible, as evident from distinctively higher f0 and intensity maxima, and duration values associated with ex- situ words, as well as their higher visibility in discourse. Distinctive acoustic-prosodic realization of ex-situ words may cue their relatively high informational load and discourse prominence, as well as (redundantly) signal that the word is left- or right-dislocated.