The TAPS workshop will cover the following content and methodology areas, concentrating in this first meeting mainly on tone systems and their relation to other areas of prosody:

• Content:
  • Types of tone language (Discrete, Terrace, or Pitch accent languages)
  • Types of tone (level or contour), inventories of level and contour tones (HL, LH, HM. LM, MH, L!H, ...) and inventory sizes (2, 3, 4, 5, ...)
  • Tonal processes (spreading, assimilation, simplification, deletion, ...)
  • Automatic and non-automatic tonal downstep, floating tones
  • Downtrend phenomena (downdrift, upstep, upsweep, suspension of downdrift, ...)
  • Functional load of tone (lexical, grammatical), tonogenesis, ...
  • Other prosodic features in relation to tone
  • Prosody of intonation languages spoken in Africa (e.g. English, French, Portuguese, ...)
• Methodology:
  • Tonal category systems
  • Methods for eliciting tonal data
  • Tone transcription and annotation in language documentation
  • Formalisms for modelling and representing tone
  • Computational models for tone systems