| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Background | 第12-18页 |
| ·Literature Review | 第12-14页 |
| ·The Previous Research on the Stress in English | 第12-13页 |
| ·The Previous Research on the Stress in Chinese | 第13-14页 |
| ·Significance of the Present Study | 第14-16页 |
| ·The Three aspects and Methods of Study | 第16页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two English Stress | 第18-37页 |
| ·The Definition of Stress and the Acoustic Features of English Stress | 第18-19页 |
| ·The Characteristics of English Stress | 第19-28页 |
| ·The Rules of Word Stress of English | 第21-24页 |
| ·The Rules of the Stress of English Compound-words | 第24-25页 |
| ·The Function of English Stress | 第25-28页 |
| ·The Types of Sentence Stress in English | 第28-30页 |
| ·The Rules of Sentence Stress Distribution | 第30-33页 |
| ·Stress is assigned to content words | 第30-31页 |
| ·Stress is assigned to the rightmost vowel | 第31页 |
| ·Stress is assigned to internal argument | 第31-32页 |
| ·Stress is assigned to new information | 第32-33页 |
| ·The Relation Between Stress and Syntactic Structure in English | 第33-35页 |
| ·The Relation between English Stress and Rhythm | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter Three Chinese Stress | 第37-51页 |
| ·The Definition of Stress and the Acoustic Features of Chinese Stress | 第37-38页 |
| ·Neutral Tone in Chinese | 第38-40页 |
| ·The Rules of Word Stress of Chinese | 第40-41页 |
| ·The Function of Neutral Tone in the Lexicalization | 第41-43页 |
| ·Sentence Stress in Chinese | 第43-51页 |
| ·The Rules of Sentence Stress of Chinese | 第45-47页 |
| ·The Relation Between Stress and Syntactic Structure | 第47-51页 |
| Chapter Four Comparison Between English Stress and Chinese Stress | 第51-60页 |
| ·Comparison of the Acoustic Features between English and Chinese Stress | 第51页 |
| ·Comparison of the Functions of Word Stress between English and Chinese | 第51-54页 |
| ·Comparison of Sentence Stress between English and Chinese English and Chinese | 第54-60页 |
| ·Comparison of Sentence Stress Rules Between English and Chinese | 第55-57页 |
| ·Comparison of the Grammatical Functions of Sentence Stress between | 第57-60页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第60-64页 |
| Bibliography | 第64-68页 |
