Tone inventories and tune-text alignments

Traditional typologies of tone and intonation 
classify languages in terms of two dichotomies.
In the Autosegmental-Metrical framework, these 
dichotomies can be restated in terms of two 
questions concerning tone inventory and tune-
text alignment. First, is the inventory of 
pitch contours that contrast short utterances 
composed primarily of tone patterns that are 
specified in the lexicon (so-called "tone 
languages"), or are most of the patterns that 
compose utterance tunes morphemes in their own 
right (so-called "intonation languages")? 
Second, what are the factors determining tune-
text alignment at the lowest levels of the prosodic 
heirarchy? For example, are some parts of the 
tune necessarily anchored to rhythmically 
prominent syllables within focused constituents
(so-called "stress languages"), or are all tones 
anchored exclusively to prosodic group edges or 
to a rhythmically undifferentiated culminative 
syllables (what Beckman, 1986, called "non-stress 
accent")? This talk will review some of the 
phenomena that we have looked at over the last 
twenty years that have helped us arrive at this 
Autosegmental-Metrical characterization of 
traditional typologies of tone and intonation. 
The primary emphasis will be on examples that 
have advanced the broad descriptive typology
and helped work on intonational phonology 
connect to work on focus and other aspects of 
the pragmatic interpretation of prosody.