| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-20页 |
| ·Preliminaries | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Organization of the Thesis | 第13页 |
| ·Theoretical Background | 第13-19页 |
| ·Tone as an Autosegment | 第13-15页 |
| ·Tonal Structure | 第15-16页 |
| ·Optimality Theory | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Acoustic Properties of Tone | 第18-19页 |
| ·Summary | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Review of the Previous Research | 第20-27页 |
| ·The Phonetic Properties of the Neutral Tone in Some Chinese Dialects | 第21-25页 |
| ·Duration in Distinguishing the Neutral Tone from the Full Tone | 第21-22页 |
| ·Amplitude in Distinguishing the Neutral Tone from the Full Tone | 第22-23页 |
| ·F0 in Distinguishing the Neutral Tone from the Full Tone | 第23-25页 |
| ·Formants in Distinguishing the Neutral Tone from the Full Tone | 第25页 |
| ·Tone in Yiyang Chinese | 第25-26页 |
| ·Summary | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Acoustic Experiment on Surface Tones in Yiyang Chinese | 第27-53页 |
| ·Introduction to the consonant, vowel and tone system in YC | 第27-29页 |
| ·Disyllabic Expressions with the Neutral Tone in YC | 第29-32页 |
| ·The Experiment Purpose | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Experiment Design | 第33-39页 |
| ·Informants | 第33页 |
| ·Speech Materials | 第33-39页 |
| ·Data Recording | 第39页 |
| ·Data Processing | 第39页 |
| ·Result of the Experiment | 第39-52页 |
| ·Tones of Monosyllabic Words | 第40-43页 |
| ·F_0 Values of the Neutral Tone | 第43-46页 |
| ·F_0, Duration, Amplitude and Formants of the Compared Groups | 第46-52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-53页 |
| Chapter 4 The Phonological Interpretation to the Phonetic Facts | 第53-70页 |
| ·The Tone System in Yiyang Chinese | 第53-62页 |
| ·The Assumption about the Tone System in Yiyang Chinese | 第53-54页 |
| ·Phonological Interpretation of the Tone System in YC | 第54-55页 |
| ·The Syllable Structure in Yiyang Chinese | 第55-62页 |
| ·Summary | 第62页 |
| ·The Optimality Theoretic Analysis of the Neutral Tone | 第62-69页 |
| ·Constraints | 第63-64页 |
| ·Ranking of the Constraints | 第64-67页 |
| ·OT Evaluation for the Neutral Tone in Disyllabic Expressions | 第67-69页 |
| ·Summary | 第69-70页 |
| Conclusion | 第70-72页 |
| Bibliography | 第72-76页 |
| Acknowledgment | 第76-77页 |
| Appendix A 攻读硕士学位期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第77-78页 |
| Appendix B The Word List | 第78-86页 |
| Appendix C 详细中文摘要 | 第86-88页 |
