| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第1-16页 |
| ·Aim of this thesis | 第10-12页 |
| ·A brief review of the previous studies | 第12-14页 |
| ·Layout of this thesis | 第14-16页 |
| CHAPTER TWO MAJOR RHYTHMIC FEATURES OF CHINESE | 第16-29页 |
| ·Chinese and English as two different types of language | 第16-18页 |
| ·Difference in writing system | 第16-17页 |
| ·Monosyllabism vs. polysyllabism | 第17-18页 |
| ·Fundamental differences in sound system | 第18-22页 |
| ·Difference in syllabic structure | 第18-19页 |
| ·Difference in the way syllables are pronounced | 第19-20页 |
| ·Difference in sensitivity to intensity and pitch | 第20-22页 |
| ·Major rhythmic features of Chinese | 第22-29页 |
| ·A tendency towards disyllabicity | 第22-23页 |
| ·A tendency towards quadrisyllabicity | 第23-24页 |
| ·Use of four-characters phrases | 第24-25页 |
| ·A tendency towards disyllabicity | 第25-26页 |
| ·Constant occurrence of uniform phrases or clauses in succession | 第26-27页 |
| ·Alternate occurrence of uniform and loose phrases or clauses | 第27-29页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE REALIZATION OF DISYLLABICITY AND QUADRISYLLABICITY | 第29-56页 |
| ·Realization of disyllabicity | 第30-37页 |
| ·Expansion into a disyllable | 第30-32页 |
| ·Adding a monosyllable that adds little meaning to the root morpheme | 第30-31页 |
| ·Putting together two monosyllables with similar meanings | 第31-32页 |
| ·Contraction to a disyllable | 第32页 |
| ·Reduplication of a monosyllable | 第32-36页 |
| ·Reduplicating measure words | 第33页 |
| ·Reduplicating monosyllabic verbs | 第33-35页 |
| ·Reduplicating monosyllabic adjectives | 第35-36页 |
| ·The manipulation of function words | 第36-37页 |
| ·Adding an adverb of degree | 第36-37页 |
| ·Omitting the function words "和" or "或" | 第37页 |
| ·Realization of quadrisyllabicity | 第37-49页 |
| ·Expansion into a quadrisyllabicity | 第37-42页 |
| ·Putting two disyllables together in the form of 2+2 | 第38-40页 |
| ·Putting two synonymous disyllables together | 第38-39页 |
| ·A disyllabic verb + a disyllabic noun as object | 第39页 |
| ·A disyllabic noun + a disyllabic noun adjective | 第39-40页 |
| ·Adding a semantically weak disyllabic modifier to the head disyllable | 第40-41页 |
| ·Adding a monosyllable to a trisyllable | 第41-42页 |
| ·Contraction to a quadrisyllable | 第42-43页 |
| ·Reduplication into a quadrisyllable | 第43-47页 |
| ·AABB | 第43-45页 |
| ·A disyllabic adjective or adverb reduplicated into AABB | 第43-44页 |
| ·A disyllabic verb reduplicated into AABB | 第44-45页 |
| ·A disyllabic noun reduplicated into AABB | 第45页 |
| ·ABAB | 第45-46页 |
| ·A disyllabic verb reduplicated into ABAB | 第45-46页 |
| ·A disyllabic adverb reduplicated into ABAB | 第46页 |
| ·ABCC | 第46-47页 |
| ·The manipulation of function words in quadrisyllables | 第47-49页 |
| ·Adding an adverb of degree | 第47页 |
| ·Adding function words like "的" or "之" | 第47-48页 |
| ·Adding directional verbs | 第48-49页 |
| ·Omitting the function words "和" or "或" | 第49页 |
| ·The use of four-character phrases | 第49-56页 |
| ·A_1B_1A_2B_2 | 第50-51页 |
| ·A_1A_2A_3A_4 | 第51页 |
| ·A_1BA_2B | 第51页 |
| ·AB_1AB_2 | 第51-52页 |
| ·ABAB' | 第52-53页 |
| ·NANA' | 第53页 |
| ·AABB' or AA'BB | 第53-54页 |
| ·Other forms of "Four-character Phrases" | 第54-56页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR THE REALIZATION OF SOME OTHER RHYTHMIC FEATURES | 第56-67页 |
| ·Repetition | 第56-61页 |
| ·Repetition of words | 第56-61页 |
| ·Repetition of verbs | 第56-57页 |
| ·Repetition of nouns | 第57-58页 |
| ·Repetition of adjectives | 第58-59页 |
| ·Repetition of adverbs | 第59-60页 |
| ·Repetition of pronouns | 第60-61页 |
| ·Repetition of phrases and sentences | 第61页 |
| ·Occurrence of uniform clauses or phrases in succession | 第61-62页 |
| ·Alternate occurrence of uniform and loose phrases or clauses | 第62-63页 |
| ·The use of different regulatory devices in a paragraph | 第63-67页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE Concluding Remarks | 第67-68页 |
| Selected Bibliography | 第68-69页 |
