| 附表 | 第1-6页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第6-8页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第8-11页 |
| Abstract | 第11-21页 |
| List of Tables | 第21-26页 |
| List of Figures | 第26-27页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第27-28页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第28-45页 |
| ·Rationale of the Study | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Choice of Dialects for the Study:the Five Wu Dialects | 第30-37页 |
| ·Relevant Notions | 第37-42页 |
| ·Linguistic Distance | 第37-39页 |
| ·Mutual Intelligibility | 第39页 |
| ·Language,Dialect,Accent and Variety | 第39-42页 |
| ·The Aim of the Study | 第42-43页 |
| ·Structure of the Dissertation | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Two Previous Studies on Mutual Intelligibility | 第45-61页 |
| ·The Early Studies on Mutual Intelligibility | 第45-49页 |
| ·Objective Testing versus Subjective Testing | 第49-53页 |
| ·Studies on Mutual Intelligibility of Chinese Dialects | 第53-59页 |
| ·Summary | 第59-61页 |
| Chapter Three The Phonology of Five Wu Dialects | 第61-102页 |
| ·General Introduction of the Previous Studies | 第61-65页 |
| ·The Phonology of Huangyan | 第65-72页 |
| ·Initials | 第65-68页 |
| ·Finals | 第68-71页 |
| ·Tones | 第71-72页 |
| ·The Phonology of Wenzhou | 第72-80页 |
| ·Initials | 第72-76页 |
| ·Finals | 第76-78页 |
| ·Tones | 第78-80页 |
| ·The Phonology of Quzhou | 第80-83页 |
| ·Initials | 第80-81页 |
| ·Finals | 第81-82页 |
| ·Tones | 第82-83页 |
| ·The Phonology of Yongkang | 第83-87页 |
| ·Initials | 第83-85页 |
| ·Finals | 第85-86页 |
| ·Tones | 第86-87页 |
| ·The Phonology of Wujiang | 第87-91页 |
| ·Initials | 第87-88页 |
| ·Finals | 第88-89页 |
| ·Tones | 第89-91页 |
| ·A Brief Comparison of the Phonological Structures of the Five Dialects | 第91-101页 |
| ·Initials | 第93-95页 |
| ·Finals | 第95-99页 |
| ·Tones | 第99-100页 |
| ·Syllable Structure | 第100-101页 |
| ·Summary | 第101-102页 |
| Chapter Four Experimental Analysis of Mutual Intelligibility Among Five Wu Dialects | 第102-128页 |
| ·Introduction | 第102-103页 |
| ·Stimulus Material | 第103-106页 |
| ·Recording of the Material | 第106-110页 |
| ·Speakers of the Stimuli | 第106-107页 |
| ·Sound Recordings | 第107页 |
| ·Sound Editing | 第107-110页 |
| ·Listeners for the Test | 第110-111页 |
| ·Testing | 第111-113页 |
| ·The Results | 第113-126页 |
| ·Results of Self-self Pairs | 第113-116页 |
| ·Results between Different Dialect Pairs | 第116-117页 |
| ·Comparisons between the Results of Self-self Pairs and those of Dialect Pairs | 第117-119页 |
| ·Mutual Intelligibility Scores | 第119-121页 |
| ·The Intelligibility Degree of the Five Wu Dialects | 第121-123页 |
| ·Adjusted Intelligibility Scores | 第123-126页 |
| ·Summary | 第126-128页 |
| Chapter Five Linguistic Distances Among Five Wu Dialects | 第128-209页 |
| ·Edit Distance | 第129-139页 |
| ·Introduction | 第129-132页 |
| ·Edit Distance:Phonetic Transcription Based | 第132-133页 |
| ·Matches of Segments | 第133-134页 |
| ·Operation Weights | 第134-135页 |
| ·Non-normalized and Normalized Edit Distances | 第135-139页 |
| ·Non-normalized Edit Distance | 第135-136页 |
| ·Normalized Edit Distance | 第136-139页 |
| ·Linguistic Distances of the Ten Dialect Pairs | 第139-187页 |
| ·Reliability of the Sample | 第139-142页 |
| ·Edit Distances Calculated Based on the Data of Trisyllabic Words | 第142-164页 |
| ·Edit Distances Calculated Based on the Data of Sentences | 第164-183页 |
| ·Linguistic Distances Calculated Based on the Data of Words and Sentences | 第183-184页 |
| ·Tonal Distances based on the Data of Trisyllabic Words | 第184-187页 |
| ·Visualizing Aggregate Differences:Multidimensional Scaling | 第187-208页 |
| ·Visualizing the Phonetic Distances | 第187-193页 |
| ·Visualizing the Non-Normalized Phonetic Distances | 第187-189页 |
| ·Visualizing the Normalized Phonetic Distances(Method 1) | 第189-191页 |
| ·Visualizing the Normalized Phonetic Distances(Method 2) | 第191-193页 |
| ·Visualizing the Vowel Distances | 第193-198页 |
| ·Visualize the Non-normalized Vowel Distances | 第193-194页 |
| ·Visualizing the Normalized Vowel Distances(Method 1) | 第194-196页 |
| ·Visualizing the Normalized Vowel Distances(Method 2) | 第196-198页 |
| ·Visualizing the Consonant Distances | 第198-202页 |
| ·Visualizing the Non-normalialized Consonant Distances | 第198-199页 |
| ·Visualizing the Normalized Consonant Distances(Method 1) | 第199-201页 |
| ·Visualizing the Normalized Consonant Distances(Method 2) | 第201-202页 |
| ·Visualizing the Mutual Intelligibility Distances | 第202-208页 |
| ·Visualizing the Mutual Intelligibility Distances(Based on Word Level and Sentence Level Tests) | 第203-204页 |
| ·Visualizing the Word Mutual Intelligibility Distances | 第204-206页 |
| ·Visualizing the Sentence Mutual Intelligibility Distances | 第206-208页 |
| ·Summary | 第208-209页 |
| Chapter Six Predictors for MutuaI Intelligibility Among Five Wu Dialects | 第209-233页 |
| ·Introduction | 第209-210页 |
| ·Linguistic Distance as a Predictor | 第210-220页 |
| ·Correlations between the Linguistic Distances and the Raw Mutual Intelligibility Scores | 第211-215页 |
| ·Correlations between the Linguistic Distances and the Adjusted Mutual Intelligibility Scores | 第215-219页 |
| ·Correlations between the Tonal Distances and the Mutual Intelligibility Scores | 第219-220页 |
| ·Structural Distance as a Predictor | 第220-229页 |
| ·Structural Distances Among the Five Dialects | 第222-227页 |
| ·Correlations Between the Structural Distances and the Mutual Intelligibility Scores | 第227-229页 |
| ·Geographical Distance as a Predictor | 第229-231页 |
| ·Summary | 第231-233页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusion | 第233-243页 |
| ·Summary of the Major Findings | 第233-240页 |
| ·Word Level Test vs. Sentence Level Test | 第233-234页 |
| ·The Degree of Mutual Intelligibility Among Five Wu Dialects | 第234-235页 |
| ·Raw Intelligibility Scores vs. Adjusted Intelligibility Scores | 第235-236页 |
| ·Non-normalized Linguistic Distance vs. Normalized Linguistic Distance | 第236-237页 |
| ·Method 1 vs. Method 2 | 第237-238页 |
| ·Vowels vs. Consonants | 第238-240页 |
| ·Predictors for Mutual Intelligibility | 第240页 |
| ·Limitations | 第240-241页 |
| ·Suggestions | 第241-243页 |
| References | 第243-257页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第257-259页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第259-267页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ | 第267-268页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ | 第268-271页 |
| Curriculum Vitae and Published Papers | 第271页 |
