| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Introduction | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter One Theoretical Foundations of Speech Comprehension | 第12-25页 |
| ·Sensory Stores | 第13-14页 |
| ·Memory and Comprehension | 第14-22页 |
| ·General Description | 第14-15页 |
| ·The role of STM and LTM in Understanding Spoken Input | 第15-17页 |
| ·The Short-term Memory | 第17页 |
| ·The Long-term Memory | 第17-21页 |
| ·Types of Information | 第17-18页 |
| ·Schema—Organization of Information in the LTM | 第18-20页 |
| ·Memory for Verbal Item in LTM | 第20-21页 |
| ·Memory and Longer Discourse | 第21-22页 |
| ·Relevance for Language Processing | 第22-25页 |
| Chapter Two Speech Perception | 第25-35页 |
| ·Identification of Isolated Speech Sounds | 第25页 |
| ·Perception of Continuous Speech | 第25-26页 |
| ·Factors Functioning in Speech Perception | 第26-30页 |
| ·Phonetic context | 第26-28页 |
| ·Phonological Rules | 第28页 |
| ·Syntactic and Semantic Contributions | 第28-29页 |
| ·Suprasegmental features | 第29-30页 |
| ·The Cognitive Pattern of Speech Perception | 第30-35页 |
| ·Categorical perception | 第30-33页 |
| ·Analysis by Synthesis | 第33-35页 |
| Chapter Three The processes of Speech Comprehension | 第35-48页 |
| ·Mental Lexicon Access and Recognition | 第35-37页 |
| ·Definitions | 第35页 |
| ·Some Factors Functioning in Mental Lexicon Access | 第35-37页 |
| ·Frequency Effect | 第35-36页 |
| ·Regency Effect | 第36页 |
| ·Context Effect | 第36-37页 |
| ·Understanding Individual Sentences and Longer Discourse | 第37-48页 |
| ·Definitions | 第37-38页 |
| ·Constructing Underlying Representation | 第38-41页 |
| ·Constituents in the Construction of Proposition | 第39-40页 |
| ·Building Underlying Propositions | 第40-41页 |
| ·Factors Functioning in Sentence and Discourse Comprehension | 第41-48页 |
| ·Syntactic Strategies | 第41-43页 |
| ·Semantic Strategies | 第43-47页 |
| ·Knowledge of the World | 第47-48页 |
| Chapter Four Implications in EFL Listening Teaching | 第48-60页 |
| ·Instrument | 第48-49页 |
| ·Subjects | 第49页 |
| ·Results | 第49-50页 |
| ·Findings and Suggestions | 第50-60页 |
| ·Recognizing Isolated English Sounds | 第50-53页 |
| ·Getting Familiar with the Suprasegmental Features of English | 第53-55页 |
| ·Approaching Listening Syntactically | 第55-56页 |
| ·Implications of Semantic Strategies for EFL Listening Teaching | 第56-57页 |
| ·Implication of Memory Research for EFL Listening Teaching | 第57-60页 |
| ·Implications of Research Concerning Mental Lexicon Access | 第57-58页 |
| ·Implications of the Schemata Theory | 第58-60页 |
| Conclusion | 第60-61页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第61-62页 |
| Bibliography | 第62-66页 |
| Appendix | 第66-68页 |
