"To expand the database for prosodic typology, a workshop on Intonational Phonology of Understudied or Fieldwork Languages was held in 2007, as a satellite meeting of the 16th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences in Saarbrücken, Germany. Nine languages presented at the workshop are included in the current volume"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 541-580) and index.

Introduction / Sun-Ah Jun -- The intonational phonology of European Portuguese / Sonia Frota -- The intonational phonology of Catalan / Pilar Prieto -- The intonational phonology of Bangladeshi Standard Bengali / Sameer Khan -- The intonational phonology of Tamil / Elinor Keane -- An autosegmental-metrical analysis of Georgian intonation / Chad Vicenik and Sun-Ah Jun -- The intonational phonology of Mongolian / Anastasia M. Karlsson -- Prosodic-structure and focus realization in West Greenlandic / Anja Arnhold -- Intonation and prosody in Dalabon / Janet Fletcher -- Aspects of the intonational phonology of Jamaican Creole / Shelome Goodwin -- The marked accentuation patterns of Curaçao Papiamentu / Bert Remijsen, Farienne Martis, and Ronald Severing -- Complex intonation near the tonal isogloss in the Netherlands / Carlos Gussenhoven -- The intonation of Lebanese and Egyptian Arabic / Dana Chahal and Sam Hellmuth -- Intonation in Basque / Gorka Elordieta and José I. Hualde -- Typology of intonational phrasing in Japanese dialects / Yosuke Igarashi -- Methodology of studying intonation: from data collection to data analysis / Sun-Ah Jun and Janet Fletcher -- Prosodic typology: by prominence type, word prosody, and macro-rhythm / Sun-Ah Jun.