Chapter 1 Introduction to the Puzzle

1.1 Tonal prosody in Tang Regulated Style verses

1.2 The legendary origin and the outstanding issues

1.3 The objectives and the arrangement of this book

Chapter 2 Methodology

2.1 Major approaches in the research of versification

2.2 Our approach

Chapter 3 Construction of the Baseline

3.1 Areference point for comparison

3.2 Baselines used in previous studies

3.3 Constructing a better baseline

Chapter 4 Pair-Wise Contrasts in Yongming Style

4.1 Previous quantitative findings from Yongming poem data

4.2 Our discoveries—tonal rules in the Yongming poems

4.3 Statistical tests

4.4 Summary of the test results and conclusion

Chapter 5 Patterns in XXXXP Lines

5.1 Tonal patterns

5.2 The patterns found in lines where T5A is ping

5.3 Statistical testing of the pattern types found in PL2

5.4 Discussion of the tonal patterns found in PL2

5.5 Patterns in XXXXP lines in ZL1

Chapter 6 Patterns in XXXXZ Lines

6.1 The frequencies of all possible patterns of ping and ze combinations in XXXXZ lines in the Yongming collections

6.2 The frequencies of all possible patterns of ping and ze combinations in XXXXZ lines in the pre-Yongming collections

6.3 Major pattern types in ZL2 in the Yongming collections

6.4 Discussion of the tonal patterns found in ZL2

6.5 Pattern types in XXXXZ lines in ZL1 and PL1

6.6 The relationship between pair-wise contrast rules and patterns

6.7 Summary

Chapter 7 Conclusion

Bibliography

Appendix

Subject Index

Name Index