List of figures List of maps Preface Acknowledgements Notation systems,symbols and abbreviations Glossarty of terms and abbreviations Alphabetical list of OT constraints Maps 1 Introduction 1.1 What is a tone language 1.2 How is tone produced 1.3 The structure of the grammar:Phonetics and phonology 1.4 The place of phonology in the larger grammar 1.5 The organization of this book 2 Contrastive tone 2.1 Which languages are tonal 2.2 Tonal notations 2.3 Fiedl-work issues 2.4 Contrastion level tones 2.5 Location,number and types of rising and falling tones 2.6 Tone and vowel quality 2.7 Consonant types and tone 2.8 Tonogenesis:the birth of tones 3 Tonal fatures 3.1 Desderata for a feature system 3.2 Numbers of level tones 3.3 Contours 3.4 Feature geometry 3.5 Realtionship to laryngeal features 3.6 Binarity,markedness,and underspecification 4 The autosegmental nature of tone,and its analysis in Optimality Theory 4.1 Characteristics of tone 4.2 Autosegmental repersentations 4.3 The bare bones of Optimality Theory 4.4 An OT treatment of the central properties of tone 4.5 Tonal Behaviour and its OT treatment 4.6 Some Bantu phemomena in OT 4.7 Initial left-to-right association 4.8 Exrametricality 4.9 Relation Between tone and stress 4.10 The Obligatory Contour Principle 5 Tone in morphology and in syntax …… 6 African langrages 7 Aisan and pacific languages 8 The Americas 9 Tone,stress,accent,and intonation 10 Perception and acquisition of tone Biblisography Author index Subject index