| 摘要 | 第1-8页 |
| Abstract | 第8-15页 |
| Index to Figures | 第15-18页 |
| Index to Tables | 第18-22页 |
| Abbreviations | 第22-23页 |
| Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION | 第23-28页 |
| ·Purpose of the Present Study | 第23-24页 |
| ·Issues on Child L1 Development | 第24-26页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第26页 |
| ·Outline of the Dissertation | 第26-28页 |
| Chapter 2 LITERATURE REVIEW | 第28-47页 |
| ·Language Perception and Production over the First Years | 第28-33页 |
| ·Emergence of Babble and Early Speech | 第28-31页 |
| ·Acoustic Features of Some Aspects of CB/VB and Early Speech | 第31-33页 |
| ·Major Theories Concerning Child L1 Development | 第33-46页 |
| ·Discontinuous Theories on Child L1 Development | 第33-37页 |
| ·Continuous Theories on Child L1 Development | 第37-46页 |
| ·Summary | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter 3 METHODOLOGY | 第47-56页 |
| ·Subject | 第47页 |
| ·Recording Procedure and Data Collection | 第47-49页 |
| ·Data Extraction and Phonetic Transcription | 第49页 |
| ·Transcription Reliability | 第49页 |
| ·Measure of Utterances, Babble and Words | 第49-50页 |
| ·Measure of MLU | 第50-51页 |
| ·Calculation of Percentage of Consonants and Vowels | 第51页 |
| ·Statistical Analysis | 第51页 |
| ·Acoustic Study of Vowels and Consonants across the Four Stages | 第51-56页 |
| ·Selection of Segments and Syllables | 第51-53页 |
| ·Segmentation | 第53页 |
| ·Transcription | 第53-56页 |
| Chapter 4 RESULTS | 第56-143页 |
| ·Aspects of Early and Late Babble | 第56-86页 |
| ·Early Babble | 第56-67页 |
| ·Late Babble | 第67-78页 |
| ·A Comparison of the Phone Repertoire in Babble with the Sound Inventory in Mandarin Chinese | 第78-79页 |
| ·A Comparison of Early and Late Babble | 第79-86页 |
| ·Late Babble and Early Words | 第86-103页 |
| ·Preference for Types of Consonants/Vowels and Syllable Templates As well as Utterances | 第86-99页 |
| ·The CV Co-occurrence of Late Babble and Early Words | 第99-103页 |
| ·Late Babble and Early Speech Development | 第103-115页 |
| ·Preference for Types of Consonants/Vowels | 第104-111页 |
| ·Preference for Types of Syllable Templates and Utterances as well as MLU | 第111-115页 |
| ·Acoustic Study of Vowels and Consonants across the Four Stages | 第115-141页 |
| ·Intervals | 第115-128页 |
| ·Vowel Formants | 第128-141页 |
| ·Summary | 第141-143页 |
| Chapter 5 DISCUSSION | 第143-186页 |
| ·Linguistic Evidence in Support of the Continuity View | 第144-170页 |
| ·The Relationship between Phone Repertoire in Babble and Sound Inventory in Mandarin Chinese | 第145-152页 |
| ·Similar Output Patterns from Babble to Early Speech | 第152-170页 |
| ·Acoustic Evidence in Support of Continuity View | 第170-179页 |
| ·Segmental and Syllabic Intervals of CB/VB and Early Speech | 第170-173页 |
| ·Vowel Formants of CB/VB and Early Speech | 第173-179页 |
| ·The Underlying Operators Driving the Similarity of Babble and Early Speech | 第179-185页 |
| ·Physiological Parameter | 第179-182页 |
| ·Perceptual and Cognitive Parameters | 第182-185页 |
| ·Summary | 第185-186页 |
| Chapter 6 CONCLUSION | 第186-191页 |
| ·Linguistic and Acoustic Evidence in Support of the Continuity Perspective | 第186-189页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study | 第189页 |
| ·Directions for Future Research | 第189-191页 |
| References | 第191-203页 |
| Appendix A Papers Published during Ph.D Study | 第203-205页 |
| Appendix B IPA,Mandarin Consonants,Mandarin Vowels,Scripts | 第205-215页 |
| Appendix C 详细中文摘要 | 第215-233页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第233-235页 |
