| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-9页 |
| 1．1 Significance of the Study | 第6-7页 |
| 1．2 Organization of the Dissertation | 第7-9页 |
| Chapter 2 A Brief Survey of Contrastive Analysis and Suprasegmental Phonology | 第9-16页 |
| 2．1 Contrastive Analysis | 第9-11页 |
| 2．1．1 Defining CA | 第9页 |
| 2．1．2 A Historical Review of CA | 第9-10页 |
| 2．1．3 Objectives and Approaches of CA | 第10-11页 |
| 2．2 Suprasegmental Phonology | 第11-14页 |
| 2．2．1 Phonetics and Phonology | 第11-13页 |
| 2．2．2 An Introduction to Suprasegmentat Phonology | 第13-14页 |
| 2．3 CA of Suprasegmental Phonology | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 3 Stress in English and Chinese | 第16-32页 |
| 3．1 An Introduction to Stress | 第16-18页 |
| 3．1．1 The Nature of Stress | 第16-17页 |
| 3．1．2 Different Manifestations of Four Acoustic Factors in English Stress and Chinese Stress | 第17-18页 |
| 3．2 Word Stress | 第18-26页 |
| 3．2．1 Word Stress in English | 第18-19页 |
| 3．2．2 Word Stress in Chinese | 第19-21页 |
| 3．2．3 A Comparison of Word Stress Patterns Between English and Chinese | 第21-22页 |
| 3．2．4 Similar Functions of Word Stress in English and Chinese | 第22-24页 |
| 3．2．5 Different Functions of Word Stress in English and Chinese | 第24-26页 |
| 3．3 Sentence Stress | 第26-32页 |
| 3．3．1 Sense Stress in English and Chinese | 第26-27页 |
| 3．3．2 Emphatic Stress in English and Chinese | 第27-28页 |
| 3．3．3 Similar Functions of Sentence Stress in English and Chinese | 第28-30页 |
| 3．3．4 Different Functions of Sentence Stress in English and Chinese | 第30-32页 |
| Chapter 4 Rhythm in English and Chinese | 第32-49页 |
| 4．1 Characteristics of English Rhythm and Chinese Rhythm | 第32-34页 |
| 4．1．1 English: Stress-timed Rhythm | 第32-33页 |
| 4．1．2 Chinese: Syllable-timed Rhythm | 第33-34页 |
| 4．2 The Rhythm Unit | 第34-39页 |
| 4．2．1 Foot of Spontaneous Speech in English | 第34-35页 |
| 4．2．2 Foot of Spontaneous Speech in Chinese | 第35-36页 |
| 4．2．3 Foot and Rhythmic Group | 第36-37页 |
| 4．2．4 A Comparison of Poetic Feet Between English and Chinese | 第37-39页 |
| 4．3 Functions of Rhythm | 第39-43页 |
| 4．3．1 Similar Functions of Rhythm in English and Chinese | 第39-42页 |
| 4．3．2 Different Functions of Rhythm in English and Chinese | 第42-43页 |
| 4．4 Pause | 第43-49页 |
| 4．4．1 Sense-Group and Pause | 第43-44页 |
| 4．4．2 Grammatical Pause in English and Chinese | 第44-46页 |
| 4．4．3 Functions of Pause in English and Chinese | 第46-49页 |
| Chapter 5 Intonation in English and Chinese | 第49-78页 |
| 5．1 An Introduction to Intonation | 第49-50页 |
| 5．2 English: Intonation Language | 第50-54页 |
| 5．2．1 Tones and their Implications | 第50-52页 |
| 5．2．2 The Tone Group | 第52-53页 |
| 5．2．3 Structure of a Tone Group | 第53-54页 |
| 5．3 Chinese: Tone Language | 第54-60页 |
| 5．3．1 Four Basic Tones and the Neutral Tone | 第54-56页 |
| 5．3．2 Tone Sandhi | 第56-58页 |
| 5．3．3 Functions of Chinese Tones | 第58-60页 |
| 5．4 A Comparison of Tone Patterns Between English and Chinese | 第60-63页 |
| 5．5 Functions of Intonation in English and Chinese | 第63-78页 |
| 5．5．1 Attitudinal Functions | 第63-66页 |
| 5．5．2 Grammatical Functions | 第66-69页 |
| 5．5．3 Informational Functions | 第69-73页 |
| 5．5．4 Discourse Functions | 第73-78页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第78-81页 |
| 6．1 Implications | 第78-80页 |
| 6．2 Suggestions | 第80-81页 |
| Bibliography | 第81-85页 |
| 英文摘要 | 第85-88页 |
| 内容摘要 | 第88-89页 |
