| Acknowledgements | 第1-4页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第4-8页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第8-13页 |
| 1．1 Issue of the Paper | 第8-9页 |
| 1．2 The Present Study of the Issue | 第9-11页 |
| 1．3 The purpose,purport and Prospectus of the Issue | 第11-13页 |
| 1．3．1 The Purpose,Purport of the Issue | 第11页 |
| 1．3．2 The Prospectus of the Issue | 第11-12页 |
| 1．3．3 The Feature and Innovative Point of the Issue | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter 2 Weak Universalism and the Object of the Study of Phonology | 第13-26页 |
| 2．1 Weak Vniversalism | 第13-19页 |
| 2．1．1 Universals and Heterology of All Human Languages | 第13-16页 |
| 2．1．2 Classification of Universalism | 第16-19页 |
| 2．2 The Object of the Study of phonology | 第19-26页 |
| 2．2．1 The Object of the Study of Phonetics | 第19-21页 |
| 2．2．2 The Object of the Study of Phonology | 第21-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Nature and Classification of Stress and Neutral Tone | 第26-42页 |
| 3．1 The Tertium Comparations（TC）of the Homographs | 第26-28页 |
| 3．2 Nature and Classiftcation of Stress | 第28-34页 |
| 3．2．1 Definition of Stress | 第28-29页 |
| 3．2．2 Nature of Stress | 第29-32页 |
| 3．2．3 Levels of Stress | 第32-33页 |
| 3．2．4 Classification of Stress | 第33-34页 |
| 3．3 Nature and Classification of Neutral Tone | 第34-42页 |
| 3．3．1 Definition of Neutral Tone | 第34-35页 |
| 3．3．2 Nature of Neutral Tone | 第35-39页 |
| 3．3．3 Classification of Neutral Tone | 第39-42页 |
| Chapter 4 A Contrastive Study of HS and HN by Means of Statistics | 第42-74页 |
| 4．1 A Contrastive Study of Homographs（distinguished by stress） in English and Homographs（distinguished by neutral tone）in Chinese | 第42-47页 |
| 4．1．1 Homograph | 第42-43页 |
| 4．1．2 HE in English and HN in Chinese | 第43-47页 |
| 4．2 A Contrastive Study of HS and HN by Means of Statistics | 第47-74页 |
| 4．2．1 The Correlative Concepts of Statistics | 第49-57页 |
| 4．2．2 TE,HE and HS in the English Language | 第57-65页 |
| 4．2．3 TC,HC and HN in the Chinese Language | 第65-72页 |
| 4．2．4 The Comparison among the Correlative Coefficients of the Former Comparative Items | 第72-74页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第74-77页 |
| 5．1 Conclusion | 第74-75页 |
| 5．2 More problems under Discussion | 第75-77页 |
| Bibliography | 第77-84页 |
