| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-10页 |
| CONTENTS | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-19页 |
| ·The rational and significance of the study | 第12-13页 |
| ·The literature review of intonation study | 第13-16页 |
| ·The objective of the study and the research questions | 第16-17页 |
| ·Theoretical framework | 第17-19页 |
| CHAPTER TWO Methodology | 第19-27页 |
| ·Participants and the target sentence | 第19-20页 |
| ·Nucleus identification | 第20-22页 |
| ·Intonation study | 第22-27页 |
| ·Grouping | 第22页 |
| ·Locating the pitch heights—high,mid-high,mid,mid-low,and low of each speaker | 第22-24页 |
| ·Labeling the target sentence | 第24-27页 |
| CHAPTER THREE Identification and Comparison of Nucleus | 第27-32页 |
| ·Result of nucleus identification | 第27页 |
| ·Result of the comparison of nuclei | 第27-30页 |
| ·Discussion | 第30-32页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR Intonation Study | 第32-69页 |
| ·Pitch movement | 第32-36页 |
| ·Description of the pitch movements | 第33-34页 |
| ·Comparison of pitch movements between the target sentences read by the Chinese EFL learners and those read by the NSs | 第34页 |
| ·Discussion | 第34-36页 |
| ·Pitch movement configurations in a tone unit | 第36-49页 |
| ·Prenuclear patterns and nuclear tones | 第37-47页 |
| ·Comparison and discussion | 第47-49页 |
| ·Intonation pattern of the target sentence | 第49-69页 |
| ·Accentuation in intonation pattern | 第50-62页 |
| ·Intonation function and the syntactic properties of an utterance | 第62-65页 |
| ·"Look-ahead" strategy and the successful programming of a pitch contour | 第65-69页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE Conclusion | 第69-75页 |
| ·The conclusion of the study | 第69-73页 |
| ·The Limitations and future study | 第73-75页 |
| REFERENCES | 第75-78页 |
| APPENDIX A | 第78-82页 |
| APPENDIX B | 第82-93页 |
