The Phonology of Standard Chinese
● 作者：端木三San Duanmu
● 作者網站：http://www-personal.umich.edu/~duanmu/
● 出版年：2000,
● 出版社：Oxford University Press
本書隸屬於牛津大學所出版系列書 The Phonology of the World’s Language其中的一本著作。
其系列如下：
The Phonology of Norwegian
Gjert Kristoffersen
The Phonology of Hungarian
Péter Siptár and Miklós Tökenczy
The Phonology of Prtuguese
Maria Helena Mateus and Ernesto d’Andrade
The Phonology of English
Michael Hammond
The Phonology of Dutch
Geert Booij
The Phonology of German
Richard Wiese
The Phonology and Morphology of Kimatumbi
David Odden
The Lexical Phonology of Slovak
Jerzy Rubach
作者在書中提到，有三個目標期望透過這本書拿夠傳達給讀者
第一：對標準國語(Standard Chinese)主要音韻論據，提供一個系統性的描述。
第二：對於這些論據，提供一個理論性的分析。標準國語的分析與許多語言學理論有密切的關係，如音節系統、韻律的音韻學、聲調，以及音韻和句法的互動。
第三：所有的分析及論據都會以非專門的方式來呈現，讓廣大的讀者可以很容易了解，只要對一些以音標呈現的基本的術語有些了解即可。
& Contents of the book
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Chinese and its speakers
1.2 Chinese dialects
1.3 History
1.4 The twentieth century
1.5 Phonological literature on SC
1.6 Goals of this book
1.7 Preview of chapters
2. THE SOUND INVENTORY
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Theoretical background
2.3 Sounds of SC
2.4 Feature charts for SC sounds
2.5 Feature charts for SC sounds
3. COMBINATIONS AND VARIATION OF SC SOUNDS
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Theoretical background
3.3 The data
3.4 The analysis
3.5 Further issues
3.6 Summary
4. THE SYLLABLE
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Phonological representation of the syllable
4.3 Two analyses of the syllable in SC
4.4 Argument for the present analysis
4.5 Language games
4.6 Conclusions
5. THE WORD
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Previous criteria
5.3 The present analysis
5.4 Further issues
5.5 Conclusions
6. STRESS
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Stress theory
6.3 Previous analysis of word stress in SC
6.4 The present analysis
6.5 Why is stress hard to perceive in SC?
6.6 Conclusion
7. THE WORD LENGTH PROBLEM
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Disyllabic words in SC
7.3 Previous analyses
7.4 The present analysis
7.5 Further issues
7.6 Conclusions
8. THE WORD ORDER PROBLEM
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Word order patterns
8.3 Analysis
8.4 Further issues
8.5 Conclusions
9. THE [R] SUFFIX
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Basic facts
9.3 Previous analysis
9.4 The present analysis
9.5 Further issues
9.6 Conclusions
10. TONE：BASIC PROPERTIES
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Theoretical background
10.3 Tones in SC
10.4 Further issues
10.5 Conclusions
11. TONE 3 SANDHI (T3S)
11.1 Introduction
11.2 The data
11.3 Previous analyses
11.4 The present analysis
11.5 Conclusions
12. FURTHER ISSUES
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Connected speech
12.3 Phonological processes in other dialects
12.4 Taiwan accented SC(TWSC)
12.5 Conclusions