Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. Contrastive tone; 3. Tonal features; 4. The autosegmental nature of tone, and its analysis in Optimality Theory; 5. Tone in morphology and in syntax; 6. African languages; 7. Asian and Pacific languages; 8. The Americas; 9. Tone, stress, accent and intonation; 10. Perception and acquisition of tone.

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This comprehensive textbook provides a clearly organized introduction to tone and tonal phonology.

Reviews

'... a clearly written introduction to tone that manages to address both needs ... it explains the basics of the field in such a way that it is accessible to beginning students who have just had the rudiments of phonetics and phonology. But is is precise and scholarly enough that is serves also as an excellent review of the tone literature for practising linguists ... even those who specialize in the study of tone will find themselves learning ...'. Journal of Linguistics '... a welcome addition to the line-up of the Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics ... a gem of a textbook ...'. Journal of Phonology