Traditionally, Chinese phonetics study focused on tonetics, crambo and tone of speech with neglect to the study of Chinese rhythm, thus failed to fully describe the entire Chinese voice system.

• 由于我们的语音学研究一向偏重于声、韵、调，而忽略了汉语节律的研究，这使以往的汉语语音学不可能对整个汉语音系作出全面描写。