| Acknowledgement | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-9页 |
| Abstract in Chinese (论文摘要) | 第10-12页 |
| Tables and graphs | 第12-13页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Introduction | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter One A Critical Survey and the Domain of the Research | 第16-29页 |
| 1. 1 Background of the Study | 第16-17页 |
| 1. 2 A Prototype | 第17-19页 |
| 1. 3 A Literature Review of Category and Prototype Study | 第19-22页 |
| 1. 4 Attributes and Entities of a Category | 第22-23页 |
| 1. 5 Reasons for Choosing Prototypes as the Perception of the Study | 第23-25页 |
| 1. 6 Schemas and Instances or Superordinate and Hyponyms | 第25-27页 |
| 1. 7 Cognition vs. Acquisition | 第27-28页 |
| 1. 8 Summary of the Chapter | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter Two Experiment Design and Data Collection | 第29-36页 |
| 2. 1 General Introduction to the Whole Experiment | 第29-31页 |
| 2. 1. 1 Introduction | 第29-30页 |
| 2. 1. 2 The Objectives Included | 第30页 |
| 2. 1. 3 Experimental Groups | 第30-31页 |
| 2. 2 Methods and Data Collection | 第31-33页 |
| 2. 2. 1 Materials for the Research | 第31页 |
| 2. 2. 2 Procedures and Methodology | 第31-33页 |
| 2. 3 Experimental Hypotheses | 第33-36页 |
| 2. 3. 1 L1 Hypotheses—for the Pre-Experiment Research | 第34页 |
| 2. 3. 2 Anthropological Hypotheses | 第34页 |
| 2. 3. 3 Language Hypotheses—for the Post-Experiment Research | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter Three The Influence of L1 Prototypes on L2 Lexical Cognition | 第36-50页 |
| 3. 1 The Design of the Research | 第36-37页 |
| 3. 2 Methodology | 第37页 |
| 3. 3 Data Analyses | 第37-45页 |
| 3. 3. 1 Analysis of College Students' Word Lists | 第38-41页 |
| 3. 3. 2 Analysis of Middle School Students' Word Lists | 第41-43页 |
| 3. 3. 3 Chinese—English Comparisons | 第43-45页 |
| 3. 4 Conclusion | 第45页 |
| 3. 5. Factors that Cause the Similarities and Differences in Chinese and English Prototypes | 第45-48页 |
| 3. 5. 1 Cultural Factors | 第45-46页 |
| 3. 5. 2 Language Feature Factors | 第46-47页 |
| 3. 5. 3 The Educational Factor | 第47页 |
| 3. 5. 4 Gender Factors | 第47-48页 |
| 3. 6 Suggestions for Lexical Cognition | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four Lexical Cognition and Data Analyses | 第50-67页 |
| 4. 1 The Control of the Variables | 第50-53页 |
| 4. 1. 1 Language Feature Factor | 第50-51页 |
| 4. 1. 2 Cultural Factor | 第51-53页 |
| 4. 2 Details about the Experimental Materials | 第53-55页 |
| 4. 2. 1 The Schema-Instance Mode | 第53页 |
| 4. 2. 2 About the Attributes and Relations | 第53-54页 |
| 4. 2. 3 Materials and Time Allocation | 第54-55页 |
| 4. 3 Data Analyses of the Experiment | 第55-66页 |
| 4. 3. 1 General Discussion of the Response of the Participants | 第62-63页 |
| 4. 3. 2 The Comparison between the Participants and Non-Participants | 第63-64页 |
| 4. 3. 3 The Results of the Experiment | 第64-65页 |
| 4. 3. 4 The Cultural Correlation—the Variables and the Affected Result | 第65-66页 |
| 4.4 Conclusion | 第66-67页 |
| Chapter Five Summary and Implications | 第67-73页 |
| 5.1 Introduction | 第67页 |
| 5.2 Summary Discussion of Experimental Groups and Group Difference | 第67-69页 |
| 5.3 Limitations | 第69-70页 |
| 5.4 Implication for Relevant Sciences | 第70-73页 |
| 5.4.1 The Position of Cognition in Lexical Development | 第70-71页 |
| 5.4.2 The Position of Formal Language Training at School in Prototype Lexical cognition | 第71-72页 |
| 5.4.3 How to Help Learners Enlarge their Vocabulary through Prototypes | 第72-73页 |
| Conclusion | 第73-75页 |
| Appendix | 第75-93页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ Questionnaire One | 第75-76页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Corpus Analysis One | 第76-81页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Prototype Categories | 第81-86页 |
| Appendix Ⅳ Questionnaire Two | 第86-88页 |
| Appendix Ⅴ Corpus analysis Two | 第88-93页 |
| References | 第93-95页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第95页 |
