| 摘要 | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Index to Figures | 第11-12页 |
| Index to Tables | 第12-14页 |
| Abbreviations | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第15-20页 |
| ·Background | 第15-16页 |
| ·Chinese syntactic categories | 第16-18页 |
| ·Research orientation and key research questions | 第18-19页 |
| ·Contents of the remaining chapters | 第19-20页 |
| Chapter 2 Previous Studies on Syntactic Category Acquisition | 第20-31页 |
| ·Semantically based approach | 第20-22页 |
| ·Nativist approach | 第22-25页 |
| ·Distribution-based approach | 第25-29页 |
| ·The issue of Chinese syntactic category acquisition | 第29-30页 |
| ·Significance of the present study | 第30-31页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第31-47页 |
| ·Subjects and data collection | 第31-32页 |
| ·Subjects | 第31页 |
| ·Data collection | 第31页 |
| ·Data transcription | 第31-32页 |
| ·Coding procedure | 第32-38页 |
| ·Criteria for Chinese word formation | 第32-36页 |
| ·Compatibility with other segmentation criteria | 第36-37页 |
| ·Criteria for utterances | 第37页 |
| ·Criteria for spontaneous utterances | 第37-38页 |
| ·Distributional analysis procedure | 第38-45页 |
| ·The information of data | 第38-39页 |
| ·Data from the parental speech | 第38页 |
| ·Data from the children’s production | 第38-39页 |
| ·Procedures | 第39-45页 |
| ·Procedure of distributional analysis excluding sentence boundaries | 第39-42页 |
| ·Procedure of distributional analysis including sentence boundaries | 第42-45页 |
| ·Quantitative evaluating procedure | 第45-47页 |
| ·Accuracy | 第45-46页 |
| ·Prominence | 第46-47页 |
| Chapter 4 Distributional Analysis of Parental Speech to Children | 第47-61页 |
| ·Introduction | 第47页 |
| ·Overview | 第47-48页 |
| ·Efficiency of frequent frames | 第48-49页 |
| ·Accuracy and prominence | 第49-59页 |
| ·Accuracy | 第49-50页 |
| ·Prominence | 第50-59页 |
| ·Prominence score | 第50-51页 |
| ·Prominent category | 第51-54页 |
| ·Examples of frequent frames yielding prominent categories | 第54-59页 |
| ·Consistency of frequent frames yielding prominent categories across corpora | 第59-61页 |
| Chapter 5 Distributional Analysis of Children’s Production before 2 Years of Age | 第61-75页 |
| ·Introduction | 第61页 |
| ·Overview | 第61-62页 |
| ·Information of the children’s production | 第61-62页 |
| ·Information of frequent frames from the children’s production | 第62页 |
| ·Accuracy and prominence | 第62-67页 |
| ·Accuracy | 第62-63页 |
| ·Prominence | 第63-67页 |
| ·Prominence score | 第63-64页 |
| ·Prominent category | 第64-66页 |
| ·Examples of frequent frames in the children’s production | 第66-67页 |
| ·Comparison of parental speech and children’s production | 第67-75页 |
| ·Information of data in the comparison | 第67-68页 |
| ·Overlapping frequent frames | 第68-71页 |
| ·The degree of overlap in frequent frames | 第68-69页 |
| ·Frequency of overlapping frequent frames | 第69-70页 |
| ·Consistency of prominent categories yielded by overlapping frequent frames | 第70-71页 |
| ·Overlapping intervening words in the overlapping frequent frames | 第71-75页 |
| Conclusions | 第75-78页 |
| References | 第78-81页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第81-83页 |
| Appendix | 第83-94页 |
| Appendix A (攻读学位期间所发表的学术论文目录) | 第83-84页 |
| Appendix B Samples of frequent frames | 第84-90页 |
| Appendix C 中文摘要 | 第90-94页 |
