Preface by Halliday
王宗炎序
Preface by Chomsky
沈家煊序
导读
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