| Chapter One Introduction | 第1-27页 |
| 1．1 Introduction | 第11-13页 |
| 1．2 Themental lexicon | 第13-17页 |
| 1．2．1 Mental lexicon-awell-organized system | 第13-14页 |
| 1．2．2 Differences between a human'smental dictionary and a book dictionary | 第14-17页 |
| 1．3 Morphological background knowledge | 第17-18页 |
| 1．4 Regular and irregular verbs in English | 第18-21页 |
| 1．5 Focus of the present study | 第21-26页 |
| 1．6 The layout of this dissertation | 第26-27页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第27-49页 |
| 2．1 Thelandscape | 第27-36页 |
| 2．1．1 Characteristics of previous researches | 第27-31页 |
| 2．1．2 Reasons for the conflicting results | 第31-36页 |
| 2．2 Modeling English verbal inflectional morphological processing | 第36-48页 |
| 2．2．1 Single-system theories | 第38-40页 |
| 2．2．2 Dual-system theories | 第40-41页 |
| 2．2．3 Connectionist models vs Pinker et al．'sdual-route models | 第41-48页 |
| 2．2．3．1 Connectionist models | 第41-43页 |
| 2．2．3．2 Pinker et al．'smodels | 第43-44页 |
| 2．2．3．3 Combat between the two kinds of models | 第44-48页 |
| 2．3 Conclusion | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter Three The Research | 第49-77页 |
| 3．1 Aims of the research | 第49页 |
| 3．2 Research design | 第49-77页 |
| 3．2．1 Subjects | 第49-50页 |
| 3．2．2 Theresearch | 第50-77页 |
| 3．2．2．1 Interview | 第50-51页 |
| 3．2．2．2 Computer-aided experimen taltasks | 第51-77页 |
| 3．2．2．2．1 Controlled factors in choosing testing items | 第51-55页 |
| 3．2．2．2．2 Rationale for the computer-aided experiments | 第55-66页 |
| 3．2．2．2．3 Hypotheses | 第66页 |
| 3．2．2．2．4 Apreliminary study on verb frequency | 第66-69页 |
| 3．2．2．2．5 Experimental procedure | 第69-76页 |
| 3．2．2．2．5．1 Experiment One | 第69-70页 |
| 3．2．2．2．5．2 Experiment Two | 第70-72页 |
| 3．2．2．2．5．3 Experiment Three | 第72-76页 |
| 3．2．2．2．6 A short summary | 第76-77页 |
| Chapter Four Results and Discussion | 第77-106页 |
| 4．1 Results and analyses | 第77-98页 |
| 4．1．1 The interview | 第77-79页 |
| 4．1．2 The experiments | 第79-98页 |
| 4．1．2．1 Experiment One | 第79-81页 |
| 4．1．2．2 Experiment Two | 第81-90页 |
| 4．1．2．2．1 Statistical analysis | 第81-82页 |
| 4．1．2．2．2 Manual examination of the answers | 第82-90页 |
| 4．1．2．2．2．1 Answers to real verbs | 第82-89页 |
| 4．1．2．2．2．2 Answers to nonce verbs | 第89-90页 |
| 4．1．2．3 Experiment Three | 第90-97页 |
| 4．1．2．3．1 Analysis One | 第91-94页 |
| 4．1．2．3．2 Analysis Two | 第94-96页 |
| 4．1．2．3．3 Analysis Three | 第96-97页 |
| 4．1．2．4 A brief summary of the experiments | 第97-98页 |
| 4．2 General discussion | 第98-101页 |
| 4．3 Theoretical significance of the present study and its implications for language teaching | 第101-106页 |
| 4．3．1 Theoretical significance | 第101-104页 |
| 4．3．2 Implications for language teaching | 第104-106页 |
| Chapter Five Concluding remarks | 第106-112页 |
| 5．1 Important findings | 第106-107页 |
| 5．2 Novelty and imitations of the present research | 第107-110页 |
| 5．2．1 Novelty | 第107-108页 |
| 5．2．2 Limitations | 第108-110页 |
| 5．3 Suggestions for further researches | 第110-112页 |
| Appendixes | 第112-122页 |
| Bibliography | 第122-139页 |
