The most comprehensive book on comparative phonology ever publishedIntroduces the principles of Tones and Break Indices, a transcription system for prosodic analysisCompares 21 languages and includes three chapters (English, Italian, Swedish) on dialect typologyThe first book on intonation that includes sound files on a CD-ROMThis book illustrates an approach to prosodic typology through descriptions of the intonation and the prosodic structure of thirteen typologically different languages based...