1 Tonal Geometry -- A Chinese Perspective.- 2 Recent Generative Studies in Chinese Syntax.- 3 Recent Developments in Functional Approaches to Chinese.- 4 Tonal Evolution and Tonal Reconstruction in Chinese.- 5 Recent Issues in Chinese Historical Syntax.- 6 Stages and Strata in Dialectal History-Case Studies of Heng County, Da County and Shipo.- 7 Linguistic Diversity and Language Relationships.- 8 Quantifying Dialect Mutual Intelligibility.- 9 Theoretical Issues in Language Development and Chinese Child Language.- 10 Neurolinguistics: A Chinese Perspective.- List of Contributors.