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Over the past two decades a great deal of work on intonation has been based on the general set of assumptions that I have elsewhere (Ladd 1996) referred to as the ‘autosegmental-metrical’ (AM) approach. This is the theory generally associated with the work of Janet Pierrehumbert (e.g. Pierrehumbert 1980, Pierrehumbert and Beckman 1988, Pierrehumbert, this volume). The central claim of the AM view is that an intonation contour is represented phonologically as a sequence of tones associated in well-defined ways with the segmental string. The AM theory and Pierrehumbert’s notational conventions have been widely adopted by investigators of other languages (e.g. Gussenhoven 1984 on Dutch, Hayes and Lahiri 1991 on Bengali, Uhmann 1991 on German, Grice 1995a on Italian), and it is unquestionably the currently dominant approach to intonational description. This dominance is now being institutionalised in the form of ToBI-style transcription systems for a variety of languages and language varieties (e.g. Silverman et al. 1992, Roach 1994).
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Ladd, D.R. (2000). Bruce, Pierrehumbert, and the Elements of Intonational Phonology. In: Horne, M. (eds) Prosody: Theory and Experiment. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9413-4_3
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