| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-7页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第7-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS | 第9-12页 |
| TABLE OF FIGURES AND TABLES | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Need for the Study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Outline of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-32页 |
| ·Definitions and Categorizations of Phrases | 第17-20页 |
| ·Definjtions of phrases | 第17-18页 |
| ·Categorizations of phrases | 第18-20页 |
| ·Definitions of noun phrases | 第18-19页 |
| ·Definitions of verb phrases | 第19-20页 |
| ·Definitions of prepositional phrases | 第20页 |
| ·Basic Concepts Related to Accentuation in English | 第20-26页 |
| ·Stress,pitch accent and nucleus | 第20-22页 |
| ·Acoustic correlates of pitch accent | 第22页 |
| ·Constraints on Accentuation | 第22-26页 |
| ·Accent is assigned to content words but not function words | 第23-24页 |
| ·The Nuclear accent Rule(NSR)by Chomsky and Halle(1968) | 第24-25页 |
| ·New information bears the accents | 第25页 |
| ·Focus | 第25-26页 |
| ·Related Empirical Studies | 第26-30页 |
| ·Perceptive studies | 第26-27页 |
| ·Productive studies | 第27-30页 |
| ·Research Gaps and Focus of the Present Study | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter Three Methodology | 第32-40页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第32-33页 |
| ·Speech Corpus | 第33页 |
| ·Data | 第33-38页 |
| ·The Chinese EFL learners | 第33-34页 |
| ·Identification of the analyzed phrases | 第34-38页 |
| ·Instruments | 第38页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter Four Findings and Discussion | 第40-56页 |
| ·The Accentuation Pattern of Noun Phrases by the Chinese EFL Learners | 第40-46页 |
| ·The accentuation pattern of noun phrases composed by adjective+ noun | 第40-42页 |
| ·The accentuation pattern of quantifying noun'+of+noun | 第42-46页 |
| ·The Accentuation Pattern of Verb Phrases by the Chinese EFL Learners | 第46-52页 |
| ·The accentuation pattern of auxiliary + finite verb | 第46-50页 |
| ·The accentuation pattern of non-finite verb phrases | 第50-52页 |
| ·The Accentuation Pattern of Prepositional Phrases by the Chinese EFL Learners | 第52-56页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第56-61页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第56-58页 |
| ·The overall acceptable rate of accentuation of English phrases | 第56页 |
| ·The major features of the accentuation of English phrases | 第56-58页 |
| ·The features of accentuation of noun phrases | 第56-57页 |
| ·The features of accentuation of verb phrases | 第57页 |
| ·The features of accentuation of prepositional phrases | 第57-58页 |
| ·Implications | 第58-59页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study and suggestions for future research | 第59-61页 |
| REFERENCES | 第61-67页 |
