| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-10页 |
| Chapter One Background | 第10-14页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Previous Studies on the Constraints That Syntax Exerts on Prosody | 第10-11页 |
| ·The Previous Study on the Constraints That Prosody Exerts on Syntax | 第11页 |
| ·Significance of the Present Study | 第11-13页 |
| ·The Two Issues and Methods of Study | 第13页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter Two Constraints That Syntax Exerts on Prosody | 第14-28页 |
| ·Direct Reference Hypothesis and Indirect Reference Hypothesis | 第14-19页 |
| ·The Problem of Direct Reference Hypothesis | 第16-18页 |
| ·The Explanatory of Indirect Reference Hypothesis | 第18-19页 |
| ·Tone 3 Sandhi in Chinese | 第19-28页 |
| ·Minimal Rhythmic Units | 第21-22页 |
| ·Chen's Assumption on Tone 3 Sandhi in Mandarin | 第22-25页 |
| ·The Comparison Between MRU and Foot | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three The Constraints That Prosody Exerts on Syntax | 第28-45页 |
| ·The Heavy NP Shift in English | 第29-31页 |
| ·The Norms of Mono-and-disyllabic Collocations in Chinese Syntactic Structures | 第31-36页 |
| ·Prosodically Constrained Postverbal PPs in Mandarin | 第36-38页 |
| ·The [verb+object+quantifier] Structure in Chinese | 第38-45页 |
| ·The Proposal of Feng on the [verb+object+quantifier] Structure | 第43-45页 |
| Chapter Four Conclusions | 第45-47页 |
| Bibliography | 第47-50页 |
