| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-8页 |
| List of Tables | 第8-9页 |
| List of Figures | 第9-10页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第10-13页 |
| Chapter1 Introduction | 第13-17页 |
| ·Research Background | 第13-15页 |
| ·Research Questions and Significance of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter2 Literature Review | 第17-33页 |
| ·Quantitative Linguistics | 第17-24页 |
| ·General Information of Quantitative Linguistics | 第17-20页 |
| ·Research Fields and Applications of Quantitative Linguistics | 第20-24页 |
| ·The Phrase as a Linguistic Unit in Sentences | 第24-27页 |
| ·Information Structure, the Principle of End-weight, the Principle of End-focus and Iconicity | 第27-30页 |
| ·Information Structure, the Principle of End-weight and the Principle of End-focus | 第27-29页 |
| ·Iconicity | 第29-30页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Length and Position of Linguistic Units and their Distributions | 第30-33页 |
| Chapter3 Research Methodology | 第33-44页 |
| ·Methods of Quantitative Linguistics | 第33-34页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach | 第34-35页 |
| ·The Corpus Used in the Study | 第35-40页 |
| ·The Composition of ICE-GB | 第36-37页 |
| ·Part-of-speech Tagging of ICE-GB | 第37-39页 |
| ·Syntactic Marking of ICE-GB | 第39-40页 |
| ·Tools for Data Processing | 第40-41页 |
| ·Procedure for Data Collection | 第41-44页 |
| Chapter4 Results and Analysis | 第44-70页 |
| ·The Distribution of Sentence Length in ICE-GBW | 第44-51页 |
| ·Overall Frequencies and Distributions of Sentence Length in ICE-GBW | 第44-48页 |
| ·The Normality of Sentence Length Distribution | 第48-49页 |
| ·The Relationship between Sentence Length and Its Corresponding Frequency | 第49-51页 |
| ·The Distribution of the Sentence-initial Phrase Length in ICE-GBW | 第51-56页 |
| ·The Overall Distribution of the Sentence-initial Phrase Length in ICE-GBW | 第51-54页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Sentence-initial Phrase Length and Its Frequency | 第54-56页 |
| ·The Distribution of the Sentence-final Phrase Length in ICE-GBW | 第56-60页 |
| ·The Overall Distribution of the Sentence-final Phrase Length in ICE-GBW | 第56-59页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Sentence-final Phrase Length and its Frequency | 第59-60页 |
| ·Comparison of Length between the Sentence-initial and Sentence-final Phrase in ICE-GBW | 第60-67页 |
| ·Similarities of Length between the Sentence-initial and Sentence-final Phrase | 第61页 |
| ·Differences of Length between the Sentence-initial and Sentence-final Phrase | 第61-66页 |
| ·Analysis of the Differences between the Length of the Sentence-initial and Sentence-final Phrase | 第66-67页 |
| ·Overall Phrase Length Distribution According to Phrase Positions within a Sentence | 第67-70页 |
| Chapter5 Conclusion | 第70-74页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第70-72页 |
| ·Pedagogical Implications | 第72-73页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Studies | 第73-74页 |
| References | 第74-78页 |
| AppendixⅠ | 第78-88页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第88-89页 |
| Resume | 第89页 |
