We conducted auditory and visual analyses of recordings of colloquial Emirati Arabic in order to develop an autosegmental-metrical account of the intonation. Based on our analyses, we propose an initial tonal inventory of two main pitch accents (i.e., H*, (LH)*), one downstepped variant (i.e., !H*), and four bitonal phrase accents (i.e., LL%, LH%, HL%, HH%), which mark the right edges of intonation phrases. The data suggest that speakers produce a pitch accent on every content word and can use pitch range compression to vary the position of the perceptually most prominent pitch accent within a prosodic phrase. The data further suggest that speakers can initiate and complete compression within a prosodic phrase and that they can extend that compression across silent durations to subsequent phrases.