Preface by Halliday 王宗炎序 Preface by Chomsky 沈家煊序 導(dǎo)讀 Preface Notational conventions 1 Setting the stage 1 Languages and dialects of China 2 Historical background 3 Tone patterns in present day dialects 4 Tones in context 5 Synchronic relevance of diachrony 6 Citation tone, base tone, sandhi tone 2 Tonal representation and tonal processes 1 Tonal representation 2 The autosegmental status of tone 3 Tonal geometry and the typology of spread/shift rules 4 Dissimilation and substitution 5 Neutralization and differentiation Appendix Tone features 3 Directionality and interacting sandhi processes I 1 The nature of the problem 2 Tianjin: directionality effect 3 A derivational account 4 Constraints on derivation 5 A non-derivational alternative 6 Cross-level constraints 7 Harmonic serialism 8 Concluding remarks 4 Directionality and interacting sandhi processes II 1 Changting: preamble 2 Temporal Sequence and No-Backtracking 3 Temporal sequencing vs. structural affinity 4 Derivational economy and structural complexity 5 Concluding remarks 5 From base tones to sandhi forms: a constraint-based analysis 1 Background 2 Parallel constraint satisfaction 3 Constraint ranking 4 Opacity 5 Competing strategies Appendix Sandhi forms of disyllabic compounds New Chongming dialect 6 From tone to accent 1 Shanghai: an aborted accentual system 2 New Chongming: an emergent accentual system 3 Culminative accent 4 Saliency and Edgemostness 5 Prosodic weight and recursive constraint satisfaction 6 Tonic clash 7 Semantically determined prominence 8 Leveling 7 Stress-foot as sandhi domain I 1 The phonological status of stress in Chinese 2 Stress-sensitive tonal phenomena 3 Shanghai: stress-foot as sandhi domain 8 Stress-foot as sandhi domain II 1 Wuxi: stress shift 2 Danyang: asymmetric stress clash 3 Nantong: stress-foot and p-word 9 Minimal rhythmic unit as obligatory sandhi domain 1 Minimal rhythmic units 2 A two-pass MRU formation 3 The syntactic word 4 The phonological word 5 Summary 6 The prosodic hierarchy 7 Syntactic juncture 8 Meaning-based prosodic structure Appendix Prosodic and syntactic word 10 Phonological phrase as a sandhi domain 1 End-based p-phrase 2 Supporting evidence for p-phrase 3 M-command or domain c-command 4 Lexical government 5 Rhythmic effect in Xiamen 11 From tone to intonation 1 Wenzhou tone system 2 Word-level tone sandhi 3 Clitic groups 4 Phrasal tone sandhi 5 Intonation phrasing 6 Tonic prominence Concluding remarks Bibliographical appendix Tone sandhi across Chinese dialects References Subject index Author index