| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-13页 |
| Idex to Tables | 第13-14页 |
| Inndex to Figures | 第14-15页 |
| Abbreviations | 第15-16页 |
| Introduction | 第16-20页 |
| ·Purpose and Significance of the Research | 第16-17页 |
| ·Approaches to the Research | 第17-18页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第20-39页 |
| ·An Overview of Theories on Child Language Acquisition | 第20-22页 |
| ·A Brief Introduction to Categorization Theory | 第22-24页 |
| ·Literature Review on Children’s Early Noun Acquisition | 第24-34页 |
| ·Criteria for Children’s Vocabulary Acquisition | 第34-36页 |
| ·Types of Noun Categorization | 第36-39页 |
| Chapter 2 A Case Study of Chinese-speaking Children’s Categorization in Noun Acquisition | 第39-54页 |
| ·Subjects and Methodology | 第39页 |
| ·Collection of Data | 第39-41页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第41-51页 |
| ·Categorization of Kinship, Organ and Clothes Names | 第43-47页 |
| ·Categorization of Utensil, Transport and Food Names | 第47-48页 |
| ·Categorization of Animal, Natural Object and Coter Names | 第48-51页 |
| ·Similarities and Differences in the Noun Categorization of Male and Female Subjects | 第51-52页 |
| ·Summary | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 3 A Study of English-speaking Children’s Noun Acquisition | 第54-67页 |
| ·Subjects and Methodology | 第54-55页 |
| ·Results and Discussion | 第55-63页 |
| ·Categorization of Kinship, Organ and Clothes Names | 第58-60页 |
| ·Categorization of Utensil, Transport and Food Names | 第60-61页 |
| ·Categorization of Animal, Natural Object and Color Names | 第61-63页 |
| ·Similarities and Differences between English-speaking Male and Female Children’s Noun Categorization | 第63-65页 |
| ·Summary | 第65-67页 |
| Chapter 4 A Cross-linguistic Study of Children’s Early Noun Acquisition | 第67-81页 |
| ·Similarities between Chinese-speaking Children and English-speaking Children’s Early Noun Acquisition from the Perspective of Categorization | 第67-71页 |
| ·Similarities between Chinese-speaking male and English-speaking male subjects | 第69-70页 |
| ·Similarities between Chinese-speaking female and English-speaking female subjects | 第70-71页 |
| ·Differences between Chinese-speaking Children and English-speaking Children’s Early Noun Acquisition from the Perspective of Categorization | 第71-74页 |
| ·Differences between Chinese-speaking male and English-speaking male subjects | 第73页 |
| ·Differences between Chinese-speaking female and English-speaking female subjects | 第73-74页 |
| ·Discussion | 第74-79页 |
| ·Summary | 第79-81页 |
| Conclusion | 第81-83页 |
| Bibliography | 第83-87页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第87-88页 |
| Appendix A 攻读学位期间主要研究成果目录 | 第88-89页 |
| Appendix B Tables | 第89-107页 |
| Table B1 Total tokens of categorization nouns of ZHZ and MHR | 第89-93页 |
| Table B2 Total tokens of kinship terms, names of organs and names of clothes of ZHZ and MHR | 第93-95页 |
| Table B3 Total tokens of categorization nouns of ADA and SAR | 第95-101页 |
| Table B4 Total tokens of kinship terms, names of organs and names of clothes of ADA and SAR | 第101-103页 |
| Table B5 Sample of categorization nouns of ZHZ, MHR, ADA and SAR | 第103-107页 |
| Appendix C Sample of Transcription | 第107-109页 |
| 详细摘要 | 第109-125页 |
