| Abstract (English) | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第8-9页 |
| Introduction | 第9-11页 |
| Chapter One. Literature Review of Past Studies Related to the Topic | 第11-26页 |
| ·Previous studies on prosodic hierarchy and prosodic word in Mandarin | 第11-14页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Sentence Stress in Mandarin | 第14-21页 |
| ·Studies on the different types of sentence stresses in Mandarin | 第15-18页 |
| ·Studies on finding out the acoustic correlates of stress in Mandarin | 第18-21页 |
| ·Previous Studies on the Stress Pattern in Non-Neutral Tone Prosodic Words in Mandarin Chinese | 第21-24页 |
| ·Discussion of the results of previous studies | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter Two. Perception Experiment on Prominence in Non-Neutral Tone Disyllabic Words | 第26-76页 |
| ·Two supporting experiments | 第27-50页 |
| ·Supporting Experiment 1 | 第27-48页 |
| ·Supporting Experiment 2 | 第48-50页 |
| ·Perception Experiment on the tone-vowel interaction in prominence perception of the Prosodic Words in Mandarin | 第50-76页 |
| Chapter Three. Acoustic experiment on the non-neutral disyllabic prosodic words -66 | 第76-127页 |
| ·Method of the acoustic analysis | 第76-77页 |
| ·Results of Data Analysis | 第77-127页 |
| ·Disyllabic nouns with the same tone and the same vowel height | 第77-84页 |
| ·Disyllabic nouns with the same tone but different vowel height | 第84-90页 |
| ·Disyllabic nouns with same vowel height but different tones | 第90-109页 |
| ·Category4. Disyllabic nouns with different tones and rhymes/vowels | 第109-127页 |
| Chapter Four. Prominence Perception Experiment on Disyllabic Words of Different Grammatical Structures | 第127-142页 |
| Chapter Five. Conclusion Part | 第142-145页 |
| Bibliography | 第145-151页 |
| Appendix1 | 第151-158页 |
| Appendix2 | 第158-199页 |
