The construction of an "ntonational typology" on the basis of the investigation of the phonological structures of intonation

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A typology of the phonological structures of intonation was proposed, in which languages are dichotomized on the basis of the differences in prosodic phrasing. Previous researchers have developed similar typologies solely based on data from languages with stress. The typology proposed in my study classifies languages, both with and without stress, into 1) the ones in which tonal events are found on almost every word in the utterance ("Dense") and 2) tonal events are found on only some of the words ("Sparse").