1 Setting the stage 1
1 Languages and dialects of China 1
2 Historical background 4
Preface by Halliday 10
王宗炎序 11
3 Tone patterns in present day dialects 13
Preface by Chomsky 14
4 Tones in context 19
沈家煊序 21
导读 24
Preface 37
5 Synchronic relevance of diachrony 38
Notational conventions 43
6 Citation tone，base tone，sandhi tone 49
2 Tonal representation and tonal processes 53
1 Tonal representation 53
2 The autosegmental status of tone 57
3 Tonal geometry and the typology of spread/shift rules 63
4 Dissimilation and substitution 79
5 Neutralization and differentiation 84
Appendix Tone features 96
1 The nature of the problem 98
3 Directionality and interacting sandhi processes I 98
2 Tianjin：directionality effect 105
3 A derivational account 110
4 Constraints on derivation? 118
5 A non-derivational alternative 122
6 Cross-level constraints 134
7 Harmonic serialism 140
8 Concluding remarks 147
4 Directionality and interacting sandhi processes II 150
1 Changting：preamble 150
2 Temporal Sequence and No-Backtracking 153
3 Temporal sequencing vs．structural affinity 158
4 Derivational economy and structural complexity 165
5 Concluding remarks 172
5 From base tones to sandhi forms：a constraint-based analysis 174
1 Background 176
2 Parallel constraint satisfaction 179
3 Constraint ranking 186
4 Opacity 201
5 Competing strategies 209
Appendix Sandhi forms of disyllabic compounds（New Chongming dialect） 218
6 From tone to accent 219
1 Shanghai：an aborted accentual system? 220
2 New Chongming：an emergent accentual system 225
3 Culminative accent 232
4 Saliency and Edgemostness 244
5 Prosodic weight and recursive constraint satisfaction 253
6 Tonic clash 267
7 Semantically determined prominence 277
8 Leveling 280
7 Stress-foot as sandhi domain I 285
1 The phonological status of stress in chinese 286
2 Stress-sensitive tonal phenomena 295
3 Shanghai：stress-foot as sandhi domain 306
8 Stress-foot as sandhi domain II 320
1 Wuxi：stress shift 320
2 Danyang：asymmetric stressclash 325
3 Nantong：stress-foot and p-word 341
9 Minimal rhythmic unit as obligatory sandhi domain 364
1 Minimal rhythmic units 366
2 A two-pass MRU formation 380
3 The syntactic word 386
4 The phonological word 396
5 Summary 403
6 The prosodic hierarchy 404
7 Syntactic juncture 414
8 Meaning-based prosodic structure 417
Appendix Prosodic and syntactic word 426
10 Phonological phrase as a sandhi domain 431
1 End-based p-phrase 431
2 Supporting evidence for p-phrase 441
3 M-command or domain c-command 446
4 Lexical government 455
5 Rhythmic effect in Xiamen 471
11 From tone to intonation 475
1 Wenzhou tone system 476
2 Word-level tone sandhi 477
3 Clitic groups 486
4 Phrasal tone sandhi 490
5 Intonation phrasing 494
6 Tonic prominence 499
Concluding remarks 504
Bibliographical appendix Tone sandhi across Chinese dialects 507
References 523
Subject index 545
Author index 551
文库索引 555