语调是言语交际中的重要语言现象，包含丰富的语言、副语言以及非语言信息。在本书中，作者主要针对目前英、汉语语调音系研究中尚存的主要问题从理论和实证两个方面展开论述，在此基础上对英、汉语调音系的结构与表征提出了自己的见解，并对二者之间的异同做了系统对比。相信该书的主要结论会对人们更好地认识当前相关领域的问题与争论有着积极的意义。

Chapter One Introduction

 1.1 Intonation and Intonational Phonology: An Overview

 1.2 Typological Backgrounds

 1.3 Aim and Scope

 1.4 Methodology

 1.5 Organization

Chapter Two English Intonational Phonology

 2.1 Literature Review

 2.2 Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation of the Approaches

 2.3 Proposals

 2.4 Conclusion

Chapter Three Chinese Intonational Phonology: An Overview

 3.1 Literature Review

 3.2 Discussion

Chapter Four Chinese Intonational Phonology: New Inquiries

 4.1 Corpus-Based Observations

 4.2 Experiment on Chinese Pitch Accents

 4.3 Test and Experiment on Chinese Boundary Tones

 4.4 Chinese Intonational Phonology: An AM Perspective

Chapter Five Representation of Chinese Intonational Phonology: A Tonal Perspective

 5.1 Preliminary: The Phonological Representation of Tone

 5.2 The Phonological Representation of Chinese Intonation

Chapter Six English and Chinese Intonational Phonology: A Contrast

 6.1 Overview

 6.2 English and Chinese Intonational Pitch Event Inventories

  6.3 English and Chinese Tune Grammar

  6.4 Tone Mapping Rules.

Chapter Seven Conclusion

  7.1 Main Findings

  7.2 Implications

  7.3 Limitations

  7.4 Issues for Future Research

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