1Introduction 1.1Theoretical background 1.2Literature review 1.2.1Prosodic marking of focus 1.2.2Shanghai Wu 1.3Research questions 1.4Outline of this book 2Focus realization and tonal implementation 2.1Introduction 2.2Methodology 2.2.1Stimuli 2.2.2Subjects and recording procedure 2.2.3Data analysis 2.3Results 2.3.1The phonetic realization of citation tones 2.3.2The phonetic realization of focus 2.3.3The analysis of tonal alignment 2.4Discussion 2.4.1The phonetic realization of citation tones 2.4.2The phonetic realization of focus 2.4.3The tonal alignment pattern 2.5Conclusion 3Focus realization and syllable organization 3.1Introduction 3.2Methodology 3.2.1Stimuli 3.2.2Subjects and recording procedure 3.2.3Data analysis 3.3Results 3.3.1General description 3.3.2The analysis of f0 measurements 3.3.3The analysis of duration 3.4Discussion 3.4.1The effect of word length on f0 pattern 3.4.2The effect of word length on duration pattern 3.4.3The phonetic realization of focus within a sandhi domain 3.5Conclusion 4Focus realization and prosodic structure 4.1Introduction 4.2Methodology 4.2.1Stimuli 4.2.2Subjects and recording procedure 4.2.3Data analysis 4.3Results 4.3.1The phonetic realization of LDS and RDS 4.3.2The phonetic realization of focus 4.4Discussion 4.4.1The nature of LDS and RDS 4.4.2The prosodic structure of LDS and RDS 4.4.3The relationship between focus encoding and prosodic structure 4.4.4The encoding mechanism of focus 4.5Conclusion 5Phonetic realization of focus breadth and type 5.1Introduction 5.2Methodology 5.2.1Stimuli 5.2.2Subjects and recording procedure 5.2.3Data analysis 5.3Results 5.3.1The nonfocused condition 5.3.2The phonetic realization of information focus 5.3.3The phonetic realization of contrastive focus 5.4Discussion 5.4.1The phonetic realization of focus breadth 5.4.2The phonetic realization of focus type 5.5Conclusion 6General discussion 6.1F0 analysis 6.2Duration analysis 6.3Intensity analysis 6.4Summary 7Conclusion and future issues 7.1Summary of major findings 7.2Further issues