1 Setting the stage

1 Languages and dialects of China

2 Historical background

Preface by Halliday

王宗炎序

3 Tone patterns in present day dialects

Preface by Chomsky

4 Tones in context

沈家煊序

导读

Preface

5 Synchronic relevance of diachrony

Notational conventions

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

1 The nature of the problem

3 Directionality and interacting sandhi processes I

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 stressclash

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

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