| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第9-14页 |
| 1.1 Research Background and Significance | 第9-11页 |
| 1.2 Research Questions | 第11-12页 |
| 1.3 Structure of the Thesis | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第14-24页 |
| 2.1 Syntactic Bootstrapping and its Working Mechanism | 第14-17页 |
| 2.2 Demonstration of Syntactic Bootstrapping in English | 第17-18页 |
| 2.3 Demonstration of Syntactic Bootstrapping in Other Languages | 第18-19页 |
| 2.4 Demonstration of Syntactic Bootstrapping in Mandarin Chinese | 第19-20页 |
| 2.5 Comparison with Naigles and Lee's (2005) Study Design | 第20-22页 |
| 2.6 Problems with Previous Studies | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter 3 Research Design | 第24-30页 |
| 3.1 Data Selection | 第24-25页 |
| 3.1.1 Child Language Data Exchange System | 第24页 |
| 3.1.2 Beijing Corpus | 第24-25页 |
| 3.2 Data Transcription and Extraction | 第25-27页 |
| 3.3 Data Analysis Procedure | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Discussion | 第30-44页 |
| 4.1 Result | 第30-34页 |
| 4.2 Discussion | 第34-44页 |
| 4.2.1 Correspondent predictive strength between markers and N/V | 第35-38页 |
| 4.2.2 Verb's obvious advantage in Mandarin Chinese and sentence position | 第38-39页 |
| 4.2.3 Verb-markers' competitive value in children's verb acquisition | 第39-40页 |
| 4.2.4 Comparison with findings in English and Turkish | 第40-41页 |
| 4.2.5 Comparison with Naigles' 2005 findings | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第44-48页 |
| 5.1 Major Findings | 第44-45页 |
| 5.2 Limitations of the Study | 第45-46页 |
| 5.3 Theoretical and Practical Implications | 第46-48页 |
| Acknowledgement | 第48-49页 |
| References | 第49-52页 |
| Appendix | 第52-60页 |
| Research Results Obtained During the Study for Master Degree | 第60-61页 |
