| ABSTRACT | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-8页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第8-9页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第9-10页 |
| CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION | 第10-15页 |
| ·Motivation for the study | 第10-11页 |
| ·The significance of the study | 第11-12页 |
| ·Research questions | 第12-13页 |
| ·The organization of the thesis | 第13-15页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW AND THEORETICAL FRAMWORK | 第15-30页 |
| ·Corpus Linguistics | 第15-16页 |
| ·Major theories of Second Language Acquisition | 第16-22页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis (CA) | 第17-18页 |
| ·Error Analysis (EA) | 第18-19页 |
| ·Interlanguage | 第19-20页 |
| ·Language Transfer | 第20-22页 |
| ·Second Language Phonology | 第22页 |
| ·The description of English and Standard Mandarin Chinese phonology | 第22-26页 |
| ·A general introduction to English and Mandarin Chinese | 第22-23页 |
| ·Segments of English and Mandarin Chinese | 第23-25页 |
| ·Syllable structure of English and Mandarin Chinese | 第25-26页 |
| ·Previous studies of the comparison between English diphthong /(?)/ and Chinese diphthong /ou/ | 第26-30页 |
| CHAPTER THREE METHODOLOGY | 第30-35页 |
| ·Corpus description | 第30-32页 |
| ·Description of Spoken English Corpus of Chinese Learners (SECCL) | 第30-31页 |
| ·Description of the British Component of the International Corpus of English (ICE-GB) | 第31-32页 |
| ·Subjects | 第32-33页 |
| ·The data of IPA /(?)/ and Standard Mandarin Chinese /ou/ | 第33页 |
| ·Data calculating procedures | 第33-34页 |
| ·Research instruments | 第34-35页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS | 第35-61页 |
| ·Observation of the spectrogram between IPA diphthong /(?)/ and Standard Chinese Pinyin /ou/ | 第35-45页 |
| ·Contrast of tongue positions between English /(?)/ and Chinese Pinyin /ou/ | 第35-38页 |
| ·The fundamental reason lying in the differences between English /(?)/ and Chinese Pinyin /ou/ | 第38-45页 |
| ·Comparison of diphthong /(?)/ in ICE-GB and SECCL in terms of syllable structures | 第45-56页 |
| ·Comparison of diphthong /(?)/ in ICE-GB in terms of syllable structures | 第47-49页 |
| ·Comparison of diphthong /(?)/ in SECCL in terms of syllable structures | 第49-56页 |
| ·The answers to the research questions | 第56-61页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE CONCLUSION | 第61-65页 |
| ·Findings | 第61-62页 |
| ·Implications for foreign language teaching | 第62-63页 |
| ·Limitations and future suggestions | 第63-65页 |
| REFERENCES | 第65-69页 |
