| 摘要 | 第4-5页 |
| English Abstract | 第5-6页 |
| Introduction | 第12-16页 |
| Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| Research Objectives and Research Questions | 第13页 |
| Significance of the Project | 第13-14页 |
| Organization of the Thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter One Literature Review | 第16-25页 |
| 1.1 Previous Studies on the Zai Construction | 第16-19页 |
| 1.1.1 The Semantics of the Zai construction | 第16-17页 |
| 1.1.2 The Syntactic Features of the Object of Zai Construction | 第17-18页 |
| 1.1.3 The Features of the Zai construction | 第18-19页 |
| 1.2 Previous Studies on the Zai Construction in Child Mandarin | 第19-23页 |
| 1.2.1 The Features of the Zai Construction in child Mandarin | 第20-21页 |
| 1.2.2 The Developmental Stages in the Acquisition Process | 第21-22页 |
| 1.2.3 The Longitudinal Changes in the Acquisition Process | 第22-23页 |
| 1.3 Comments on the Previous Researches | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two Experimental Investigations of the Zai construction in Child Mandarin | 第25-49页 |
| 2.1 Overview of the Experiments | 第25-26页 |
| 2.2 Experimental One: Elicited Production Task | 第26-38页 |
| 2.2.1 Research Subjects | 第27页 |
| 2.2.2 Research Procedure and Design | 第27-30页 |
| 2.2.3 Research Findings and Discussion | 第30-38页 |
| 2.3 Experimental Two: Picture and Video Verification Task | 第38-49页 |
| 2.3.1 Research Subjects | 第38页 |
| 2.3.2 Research Procedure and Design | 第38-42页 |
| 2.3.3 Research Findings and Discussion | 第42-49页 |
| Chapter Three Children’s Knowledge of the Zai Construction | 第49-57页 |
| 3.1 Children’s Knowledge Presented in the Two Experiments | 第49-51页 |
| 3.2 Features of Children’s Knowledge of the Zai Construction | 第51-57页 |
| 3.2.1 Features of the Children’s Production | 第51-54页 |
| 3.2.2 Features of the Children’s Comprehension | 第54-57页 |
| Conclusion | 第57-61页 |
| Works Cited | 第61-65页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第65-66页 |
| Appendix: Experimental Design in Chinese | 第66-69页 |
| Informative Abstract in Chinese | 第69-71页 |
| Résumé and Publications Since Entering the Program | 第71页 |
