Contents -- Chapter One: Introduction -- 1.1 The Geometry of Tone -- 1.2 Tone as Autosegmental Tier -- 1.3 A Brief Note on Chinese Dialects -- Chapter Two: Theories of Tone: A Survey -- 2.1 Yin-Yang Registers -- 2.2 Chao (1930) -- 2.3 Tone in Chinese Linguistics -- 2.4 Wang (1967) -- 2.5 Woo (1969) -- 2.6 Halle and Stevens (1971) -- 2.7 Yip (1980) -- 2.8 Clements (1983) -- 2.9 Hyman (1986) -- 2.10 Shih (1986) -- 2.11 Inkelas (1987) -- 2.12 Hyman (1993) -- 2.13 Yip (1989) -- 2.14 Duanmu (1990, 1994) -- 2.15 Snider (1990) -- 2.16 Chang (1992) -- 2.17 Tsay (1994) -- Chapter Three: The Representation of Tone -- 3.1 The Geometry of Tone -- 3.2 Motivation of Underlying Contour -- 3.2.1 Tonal Inventory and Tonal Contour -- 3.2.2 Natural Class and Tonal Contour -- 3.2.3 The OCP and Tonal Contour -- 3.3 Assimilation in Tone Sandhi -- 3.3.1 Tone Assimilation -- 3.3.2 Register Assimilation -- 3.3.3 Contour Assimilation -- 3.3.4 Feature Assimilation -- 3.4 Contours and Other Matters -- 3.4.1 Distributional Properties of Tones -- 3.4.2 Convex and Concave -- 3.4.3 Contour Simplification -- Chapter Four: The Autosegmental Nature of Tone -- 4.1 Tonal Morphemes -- 4.1.1 Danyang Word Melodies -- 4.1.2 Wenzhou Definitive Morpheme -- 4.1.3 Cantonese Changed Tones -- 4.1.4 Prefixes in Jiading Miao -- 4.1.5 Diminutive Suffix in Shenmu and Daye -- 4.1.6 Tone as Inflectional or Derivational Affix -- 4.2 Tone under Segmental Deletion -- 4.2.1 Cantonese -- 4.2.2 Fanqie Languages -- 4.3 The Bridge Effect -- Chapter Five: Tone in Phonological Representation -- 5.1 Dual Nature of Tone -- 5.2 Structure-Dependency of Tone Stability -- 5.3 Segmentalization of Tone -- 5.4 Phonological Processes of Tone Sandhi -- 5.4.1 Assimilation -- 5.4.2 Dissimilation -- 5.4.3 Other Sandhi Effects -- Chapter Six: The Mid Tone -- 6.1 Mid Tone as Default -- 6.2 Dual Structure of the Mid Tone.

6.3 Numerals -- 6.4 Classifiers -- 6.5 R-Lowering Reconsidered -- Chapter Seven: Epilogue -- 7.1 Contour System versus Level System: A Parametric View -- 7.2 Some Problematic Cases for the Theory -- 7.2.1 Syllabic Nasals and Obstruents -- 7.2.2 Unusual Tonal Inventories -- 7.2.3 Convex and Concave -- 7.3 Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- Appendix -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.