Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation which are used to giveshape to utterances. More specifically tone encodes segments and morphemesand intonat... » 

Tone and Intonation are two types of pitch variation which are used to giveshape to utterances. More specifically tone encodes segments and morphemesand intonation gives utterances a further discoursal meaning that isindependent of the meanings of the words themselves. In this comprehensivesurvey Carlos Gussenhoven reviews recent research into tone and intonationdiscussing why speakers vary their pitch what pitch variations mean and howthey are integrated into our grammars. His central arguments are illustratedwith phonological descriptions of the tonal and intonational systems of sixlanguages. «