Abstract
This book presents a new framework of intonation in which the author proposes to describe the intonational phonology of natural language in general. The framework put forward in this book is a revised and extended version of an intonational theory known as 'Autosegmental-metrical theory of intonational phonology' (AM Theory), which was originally proposed by Janet Pierrehumbert in her MIT dissertation nearly two decades ago. This book presents analyses of a wide range of intonational phenomena in a variety of languages in this new framework. It also provides a compact description of previous intonational models such as Halliday's and Fujisaki's, which are compared with the AM Theory in a comprehensive manner.
