| CONTENTS | 第1-10页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第10-13页 |
| 摘要 | 第13-15页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第15-16页 |
| List of Tables | 第16-18页 |
| List of Figures | 第18-20页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第20-27页 |
| ·Significance of the Study of Temporality | 第20-22页 |
| ·Significance of the Present Study | 第22-25页 |
| ·Outline of the Thesis | 第25-27页 |
| CHAPTER TWO THEORETICAL BACKGROUND | 第27-55页 |
| ·Temporal Semantics and the Tense-Aspect System | 第27-38页 |
| ·Time Specification and Expressions of Temporal Relations | 第27-34页 |
| ·Speech Time, Reference Time, and Event Time | 第28-31页 |
| ·Tense and Grammatical Aspect | 第31-34页 |
| ·The Tense-Aspect Morphology of Past in English | 第34-38页 |
| ·Lexical Aspect: The Inherent Temporal Properties | 第38-53页 |
| ·Lexical Aspect versus Grammatical Aspect | 第38-39页 |
| ·Inherent Aspectual Classification of Verbs on Time Schemata | 第39-42页 |
| ·Inherertt Semantic Aspectual Properties of Verbs | 第42-44页 |
| ·Distinctions of Lexical Aspects by Semantic Properties | 第44-46页 |
| ·Diagnostic Tests of Lexical Aspectual Categories | 第46-53页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第53-55页 |
| CHAPTER THREE PREVIOUS STUDIES ON THE ACQUISITION OF TEMPORALITY | 第55-89页 |
| ·Studies on Acquisition Stages of Temporality | 第56-63页 |
| ·Developmental Stages of Temporal System in L1 | 第56-58页 |
| ·Developmental Stages of Temporal System in L2 | 第58-63页 |
| ·Studies on Acquisition Order of Past Morphology: A Formal Perspective | 第63-69页 |
| ·The Acquisition of Irregular and Regular Past Morphology | 第64-66页 |
| ·The Principle of Saliency | 第66-69页 |
| ·Studies on Lexical Aspect: A Semantic Perspective | 第69-82页 |
| ·The Defective Tense Hypothesis | 第70-72页 |
| ·The Primacy of Aspect Hypothesis | 第72-73页 |
| ·The Aspect Hypothesis | 第73-77页 |
| ·Principles Underlying Tense-Aspect Acquisition | 第77-82页 |
| ·Review of Research Methodology in Temporal Studies | 第82-87页 |
| ·Longitudinal versus Cross-sectional Studies | 第82-83页 |
| ·Individual versus Group Data | 第83-84页 |
| ·Data Elicitation Tasks | 第84-87页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第87-89页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR METHODOLOGY | 第89-118页 |
| ·Research Hypotheses | 第89-91页 |
| ·Participants | 第91-93页 |
| ·Data Elicitation | 第93-95页 |
| ·The Task | 第93-94页 |
| ·Elieitation Procedure | 第94-95页 |
| ·Data Coding | 第95-103页 |
| ·Identification of Obligatory Simple Past Contexts | 第95-97页 |
| ·Coding for Features of Phonetic Saliency | 第97-98页 |
| ·Coding for Lexical Aspectual Categories | 第98-102页 |
| ·Classification Tests for Lexical Aspect Reconstructed | 第100-101页 |
| ·Intra-rater Adjustment and Inter-rater Reliability Test | 第101-102页 |
| ·Coding for Verb Type | 第102-103页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第103-117页 |
| ·Selection of Data for Analysis | 第103-110页 |
| ·Selection by Length of Sample | 第104-106页 |
| ·Selection Based on Accurate Use by Classification of Phonetic Saliency | 第106-108页 |
| ·Selection Based on Appropriate Use by Classification of Lexical Aspect | 第108-110页 |
| ·Tests for Bias of the Selected Data | 第110-114页 |
| ·Tests for Gender Difference | 第110-112页 |
| ·Tests for Difference in English Learning Experience | 第112-114页 |
| ·Division of Participants for the Cross-sectional Study | 第114-116页 |
| ·Division of Participants for Analysis of Phonetic Saliency | 第114-115页 |
| ·Division of Participants for Analysis of Lexical Aspect | 第115-116页 |
| ·Data Processing | 第116-117页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第117-118页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE RESULTS AND FINDINGS | 第118-155页 |
| ·Results from Analyses of Phonetic Saliency | 第118-142页 |
| ·Results from the Overall Descriptive Study: Evidence for Hypothesis 1 | 第118-128页 |
| ·The Simple Past Marking for Irregular and Regular Forms | 第119-121页 |
| ·The Simple Past Marking for Irregular Variants | 第121-123页 |
| ·The Simple Past Marking for Regular Variants | 第123-125页 |
| ·The Overall Distributional Patterns of Saliency Features | 第125-128页 |
| ·Results from the Cross-sectional Study of the Five Proficiency Groups: Evidence for Hypothesis 2 | 第128-142页 |
| ·Results from the Cross-sectional Study on the Simple Past Marking for Irregular and Regular Forms | 第128-132页 |
| ·Results from the Cross-sectional Study on the Simple Past Marking for Irregular Variants | 第132-137页 |
| ·Results from the Cross-sectional Study on the Simple Past Marking for Regular Variants | 第137-142页 |
| ·Results from Analyses of Lexical Aspects | 第142-153页 |
| ·Results from the Overall Descriptive Study: Evidence for Hypothesis 3 | 第143-147页 |
| ·Results from the Token Analysis | 第143-145页 |
| ·Results from the Type Analysis | 第145-147页 |
| ·Results from the Cross-sectional Study: Evidence for Hypothesis 4 | 第147-153页 |
| ·Results from the Token Analysis | 第147-150页 |
| ·Results from the Type Analysis | 第150-153页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第153-155页 |
| CHAPTER SIX DISCUSSION | 第155-168页 |
| ·Effects of Phonetic Saliency | 第155-162页 |
| ·The Irregular versus Regular Constraint | 第156-159页 |
| ·The Constraint of Saliency on Irregular Variants | 第159-160页 |
| ·The Constraint of Saliency on Regular Variants | 第160-162页 |
| ·Effects of Lexical Aspect | 第162-165页 |
| ·A General Discussion | 第165-167页 |
| ·Chapter Summary | 第167-168页 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS | 第168-175页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第168-170页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第170-172页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Future Studies | 第172-175页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第175-187页 |
| Appendix Data Collection Task | 第187-188页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第188-190页 |
| Publications | 第190-191页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第191页 |
