Andrea Hoa Pham is Assistant Professor of Vietnamese in the Department of African and Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Florida. She has published papers on various aspects of Vietnamese, from phonetics and phonology to gender systems. She is the author of a collection of Vietnamese poetry.

• Preface Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 2 Phonological Issues 3 The Tonal Inventory 4 The Acoustics of Tone 5 The Phonetics and Phonology of Tone 6 The Domain of Tone 7 Conclusion References Index