Language

Mary E. Beckman
The phonology of tone and intonation (review)
Language - Volume 84, Number 3, September 2008, pp. 641-643

Linguistic Society of America

Project MUSE - Language - The phonology of tone and intonation (review) Project MUSE Journals Language Volume 84, Number 3, September 2008 The phonology of tone and intonation (review) Language Volume 84, Number 3, September 2008 E-ISSN: 1535-0665 Print ISSN: 0097-8507 DOI: 10.1353/lan.0.0031 Reviewed by Mary E. BeckmanThe Ohio State UniversityDepartment of Linguistics The Ohio State University 1712 Neil Avenue Columbus, OH 43210-1298 [mbeckman@ling.osu.edu] The phonology of tone and intonation. By Carlos Gussenhoven. (Research surveys in linguistics.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 355. ISBN 0521012007. $43. This book is the second in a new Cambridge University Press series that is intended 'to provide an efficient overview and entry into the primary literature' on 'topics of significant theoretical interest in which there has been a proliferation of research in the last two decades' (ii). The phonology of tone and intonation is without question such a topic. The patent inadequacy of the early rule-focused GENERATIVE PHONOLOGY framework for modeling the tunes of words and larger utterances in any language was fundamental in both the development of the AUTOSEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY framework in the late 1970s and the later unification of tone tier representations with comparably direct representations of metrical structure in what Ladd (1996) termed the AUTOSEGMENTAL METRICAL (AM) model. Moreover, the proliferation of research that began in...