| Acknowledgements | 第4-6页 |
| Academic Achievements | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract (in Chinese) | 第7-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-10页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第17-26页 |
| 1.1 Motivations for the Study | 第17-18页 |
| 1.2 Necessity of the Study | 第18-20页 |
| 1.3 Significance of the Study | 第20-21页 |
| 1.4 Definitions and Concepts | 第21-25页 |
| 1.4.1 English Prosody: Stress, Phrase Segmentation, and Intonation | 第21-22页 |
| 1.4.2 Speech Corpus and AESOP | 第22-24页 |
| 1.4.3 The Brief Introduction of Ningbo and Ningbo Dialect | 第24-25页 |
| 1.5 Structure of the Thesis | 第25-26页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第26-40页 |
| 2.1 From Practical Annotation to Systematic Description——The Development ofEnglish Intonational Research from 17th Century to 19th Century | 第26-27页 |
| 2.2 Anglo-American Approaches to Intonation in the 20th Century | 第27-30页 |
| 2.3 The Contribution of Experimental Phonetics and the Formation of AM Theory | 第30-33页 |
| 2.4 Prosodic Studies of EFL Learners’ Production at Home and Abroad | 第33-40页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第40-50页 |
| 3.1 Speech Corpus and Reading Materials | 第40-42页 |
| 3.2 Subjects and Recording Procedure | 第42-43页 |
| 3.3 Corpus Annotation, Data Extraction and Processing | 第43-49页 |
| 3.3.1 To BI Labeling System | 第43-44页 |
| 3.3.2 IVi E Labeling System | 第44-45页 |
| 3.3.3 The Modified Labeling System | 第45-49页 |
| 3.4 Data Processing | 第49-50页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussions | 第50-77页 |
| 4.1 General Intonational Performance in EFL Yes-no Questions | 第51-52页 |
| 4.2 Pitch Patterns | 第52-62页 |
| 4.2.1 Stress Distributions | 第53-57页 |
| 4.2.2 Realization of Pitch accent | 第57-61页 |
| 4.2.3 Summary of Pitch Pattern | 第61-62页 |
| 4.3 Phrase Segmentation | 第62-68页 |
| 4.3.1 Phrasing Patterns of Ningbo EFL Learners | 第63-67页 |
| 4.3.2 Summary of the Phrase Segmentation | 第67-68页 |
| 4.4 Intonation Patterns | 第68-77页 |
| 4.4.1 Rising and Falling Tone in the Yes-no Questions | 第69-72页 |
| 4.4.2 Phonetic Realization of Boundary Tone at Sentence Final | 第72-73页 |
| 4.4.3 Intonation Changes to Map Focus Differences | 第73-75页 |
| 4.4.4 Summary of Intonation Patterns | 第75-77页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第77-83页 |
| 5.1 Summary of the Major Findings | 第77-80页 |
| 5.1.1 The Excessive Usage of Stress and Break | 第77-78页 |
| 5.1.2 Sentence-Final Pitch Accent and the Realization of Boundary Tone | 第78-79页 |
| 5.1.3 The Disjuncture between Prosodic Features and Meaning Transfer | 第79-80页 |
| 5.2 Implications for English Teaching and Learning | 第80-82页 |
| 5.3 Limitations and Expectations | 第82-83页 |
| References | 第83-88页 |
