本书收录语言学西文论文七十余篇，反映赵元任长达半个多世纪的研究历程，涉及作者在国语教学、方言调查、中国语言问题、中西语言比较、对外汉语教学等领域的实践与探索。
The Problem of the Chinese Language
Gwoyeu Romatzyh or the National Romanization
Transcribing Reversed English
A System of "Tone-letters"
A Note on "Let's"
"[E]" for Middle [e]
On Using b, d, g, for Unaspirated Voiceless Plosives
A Preliminary Study of English Intonation (with American Variants) and
Its Chinese Equivalents
Tone and Intonation in Chinese
The Non-uniqueness of Phonemic Solutions of Phonetic Systems
The Idea of a System of Basic Chinese
A Critical List of Errata for Bernhard Karlgren's Etudes sur la phonologie
Chinoise
A Note on Lia3 (俩),Sa1 Etc.
A Note on an Early Example of Logographic Theory of Chinese Writing
Distinctions within Ancient Chinese
Review of Bernhard Karlgren's Grammata Serica: Script and Phonetics in
Chinese and Sino-Japanese
Iambic Rhythm and the Verb-object Construction in Chinese
Languages and Dialects in China
Introduction to R. H. Mathew's Chinese-English Dictionary
Review of Walter Simon's Chinese Sentence Serices Records (pronounced)
The Logical Structure of Chinese Words
Fundamental Education: Language Education in China
The Voiced Velar Fricative as an Initial in Mandarin
The Efficiency of the Chinese Language
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