| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| Literature Review | 第10-19页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第19-22页 |
| ·Brief Background of the Study | 第19-20页 |
| ·Brief Introduction of Production Experiment | 第20页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第20页 |
| ·Predictions | 第20-21页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第21-22页 |
| Chapter 2 Production Experiment | 第22-47页 |
| ·Introduction | 第22页 |
| ·Method | 第22-24页 |
| ·Subjects | 第22页 |
| ·Material | 第22-23页 |
| ·Procedure | 第23页 |
| ·Data | 第23-24页 |
| ·Results and Analysis | 第24-47页 |
| ·Silent pausing features as a function of normal speaking rate | 第24-32页 |
| ·Silent pausing features as a function of slow speaking rate | 第32-39页 |
| ·Silent pausing features as a function of fast speaking rate | 第39-47页 |
| Chapter 3 Discussion | 第47-56页 |
| ·Introduction | 第47页 |
| ·General Statistics of Silent Pauses across Different Tempos | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Occurrences and Duration of Silent Pauses across Different Tempos | 第48-56页 |
| ·Boundary vs. non-boundary pause across three tempos | 第48-50页 |
| ·Major, minor and segment pauses across three tempos | 第50-54页 |
| ·Speaking style differences on silent pause across three tempos | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter 4 Conclusions | 第56-58页 |
| ·Summary of the Experiment | 第56页 |
| ·Main Findings | 第56-57页 |
| ·Implications | 第57页 |
| ·Suggestions for Future Work | 第57-58页 |
| References | 第58-63页 |
| Appendix I: English version for Uyghur reading text | 第63-64页 |
| Appendix II: Uyghur version for Uyghur reading text | 第64-65页 |
| Acknowledgments | 第65-66页 |
