Book Reviews: Prosody: Theory and Experiment. Studies presented to Gosta Bruce

This volume consists of a collection of solicited articles, presented as a tribute to G6sta Bruce, one of the leading researchers in the field of prosody. The papers are for the most part review articles (as perhaps befits a volume of this kind), and the volume thus serves an important function in prosody research in giving a broad snapshot of the field as it stands at the dawn of the new millennium. The coverage of the volume is indeed broad, including such areas as intonation inventory (Pierrehumbert, Ladd, Hirst et al., Gussenhoven), tune-text alignment (Pierrehumbert, Ladd, Gussenhoven), acoustic correlates of accent and stress (Terken et al., Beckman et al.), prominence (Terken et al., Ladd), prosodic structure and juncture (Hirst et al., Shattuck-Hufnagel, Selkirk, Ostendorf), timing (Beckman et al., Campbell), and differences between speaking styles (Hirschberg). The book is successful in providing readers with a reasonably clear perspective on what the relevant questions are, what kind of evidence is available to answer those questions, and who has done what. The authors hold in common the view that to understand prosody one needs to investigate abstract representations: one studies intonational categories and prosodic structures, rather than, for instance, vectors of f0 values. The book starts with Horne's introduction, which introduces the articles, and puts them in perspective, especially with respect to the work of G6sta Bruce. Pierrehumbert's article is an excellent survey of her own model of intonation, and would be very suitable for an introductory course on intonation: in forty pages one gets a condensed version of the historical development of a major intonational framework. It outlines the major issues that have changed the views of intonation researchers from the structuralists to today, with a section describing G6sta Bruce's influential work on Swedish intonation, as well as his contribution to the development of intonation theory embodied in the concept that sentence intonation can be represented as a sequence of tones. In Pierrehumbert's intonation system, one of the central theoretical issues is how to interpret continuous phonetic data and link it to discrete phonological categories. She reviews arguments for the twoqevel representation of tones, using only H (high) and