1 Introduction
1.1 Problems
1.2 Goals
1.3 Methodology
1.4 Significance
1.5 Organization of the Book
2 Theoretical Background
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Phonology-Syntax Interface
2.3 Minimal Indirect Reference (MIR)
2.4 Minimalism and the Phonology-Syntax Interface
2.5 Multiple Spell-out and Phases
2.6 Kayne's Antisymmetry (1994)
2.7 Basics of Optimality Theory
2.8 The Proposal:A Phase and Spell-out Theory of Prosody
2.9 Summary
3 The Syntax-Constrained Chinese Prosodic Structure
3.1 Introduction
3.2 A Typological Study of Chinese Syntactic Structure
3.3 Prosodic Features of Chinese Syntactic Structure
3.4 Minimalist View of the Chinese Prosody-Syntax Interface
3.5 Summary
4 The Phonology-Constrained Chinese Syntactic Structure
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Speech Rate and Prosodic Variation in Mandarin Chinese
4.3 Prosodic Constraints on Chinese Morphology
4.4 Prosodic Constraints on Syntax
4.5 Prosodic Influence on Syntactic Processing
4.6 Prosodic Influence on Syntactic Disambiguation
4.7 Summary
5 A Tentative Hypothesis and Model for Chinese Phonology-Syntax Interface
5.1 Introduction
5.2 General Survey of Some Prosodic Models
5.3 Chinese Prosodic Model : A Proposal
5.4 Summary
6 Chinese Prosodic Phase Hypothesis: Case Studies
6.1 Tone Sandhi in CPPH: How-Tos
6.2 TS in Mandarin Chinese
6.3 TS in Xiamen Dialect
6.4 TS in Shanghai Dialect
6.5 Summary
7 Conclusion
7.1 Summary of the Book
7.2 Discussions and Conclusions
7.3 Outlook and Suggestions
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