Division 1 The Chinese Language
Section 1 What Is Chinese
Section 2 The Dialects
Section 3 Mandarin
Section 4 Mono-Syllabicity, the Morpheme and the Morpheme-Syllable
Division 2 Linguistic Concepts
Section 5 Pronunciation vs. Spelling
Section 6 Phonetics
Section 7 Consonants, Vowels, and the Syllable
Division 3 English Sound System
Section 8 Minimal Pairs and Phonemes
Section 9 English Consonants
Section 10 Allophones and Assimilation
Section 11 English Vowels
Division 4 Mandarin Sound System
Section 12 Mandarin Consonants
Section 13 Mandarin Vowels
Section 14 Mandarin Syllable Structure
Section 15 Mandarin Tones
Division 5 Traditional Chinese Phonology
Section 16 Reverse Correspondence and Twin Initial-Double Final
Section 17 The Binary Initial+Final Analysis of the Mandarin Syllable
Section 18 Combinatory Constraints and Mandarin Syllables
Division 6 Phonetic Systems
Section 19 The Three Major Romanization Systems and Their Differences
Section 20 The National Phonetic Alphabet
Audio Materials
Sample Linguistic Terms and Place Names
Exemplary Sentences for Mandarin Initials and Finals
Disyllabic Tone Sequences
Kinship Terms
Numbers, Directions, and Seasons
Place Names in China
The Multiplication Table
4×4 Expressions
Mandarin Initials Mandarin Syllables
Mandarin Initials
Mandarin Syllables in Pinyin, Wade, Yale, and Bo-po-mo-fo Transcriptions
Index
Index