| 摘要 | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第7-11页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第11-17页 |
| ·Rationale | 第11-14页 |
| ·Objectives | 第14-15页 |
| ·Methodology | 第15-16页 |
| ·Organization | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-37页 |
| ·Basic Concepts | 第17-21页 |
| ·Definition of Sentence Stress | 第17-18页 |
| ·Acoustic Correlates of Sentence Stress | 第18-20页 |
| ·Classification of Sentence Stress | 第20-21页 |
| ·Functions of Sentence Stress in English | 第21-28页 |
| ·Semantic Function | 第22页 |
| ·Syntactic function | 第22-24页 |
| ·Pragmatic function | 第24-25页 |
| ·Rhythmic Function | 第25-28页 |
| ·Rules of Sentence Stress Distribution in English | 第28-32页 |
| ·Rule 1: Stres Assigned to Lexical Items instead of Grammatical Items | 第28-29页 |
| ·Rule 2: Stress Assigned to the Rightmost Stressable Vowel | 第29-30页 |
| ·Rule 3: Stress Assigned to Internal Argument | 第30-31页 |
| ·Rule 4: Stress Assigned to Lexical Items Bearing New Information | 第31-32页 |
| ·Acquisition of English Sentence Stress by L2 Learners | 第32-36页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Contrastive Analysis Hypothesis | 第32-34页 |
| ·From the Perspective of Interlanguage Hypothesis | 第34-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-37页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第37-49页 |
| ·Fundamentals of Optimality Theory | 第37-42页 |
| ·The Architecture of OT Grammar | 第37-40页 |
| ·Constraints: Markedness, Faithfulness, and Alignment | 第40-42页 |
| ·OT Account of Natural Languages and Language Acquisition | 第42-47页 |
| ·OT Account of Natural Languages | 第42-44页 |
| ·OT Account of Language Acquisition | 第44-47页 |
| ·Working Constraints in Sentence Stress Distribution | 第47-48页 |
| ·Summary | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter Four A Tentative Experiment | 第49-69页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第49页 |
| ·Research Design | 第49-56页 |
| ·Subjects | 第49-50页 |
| ·Materials | 第50-51页 |
| ·Procedures | 第51-56页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第56-68页 |
| ·Constraint Violation Description | 第56-59页 |
| ·Constraint Hierarchies of English Sentence Stress for Each Group | 第59-65页 |
| ·The Pattern of Constraint Reranking for the CLES’ Acquisition of English Sentence Stress | 第65-66页 |
| ·Discussion | 第66-68页 |
| ·Summary | 第68-69页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusions | 第69-73页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第69页 |
| ·Significance of This Study | 第69-71页 |
| ·Theoretical Implications | 第69-70页 |
| ·Empirical Implications | 第70-71页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research | 第71-73页 |
| ·Limitations | 第71-72页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Research | 第72-73页 |
| References | 第73-78页 |
| Appendix A: Questionnaire | 第78-79页 |
| Appendix B: The Reading Material | 第79-80页 |
| Appendix C: Sentence Stress Distribution of Each Sentence by the Four Groups of Subjects | 第80-81页 |
