| 摘要 | 第1-9页 |
| Abstract | 第9-11页 |
| Index of Tables | 第11-12页 |
| Index of Figures | 第12-13页 |
| Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Perspectives on the Nature of One-word Utterances | 第14-22页 |
| ·Perspectives on the nature of one-word utterances | 第14-18页 |
| ·One word at a time | 第14-15页 |
| ·Innate syntactic structure hypothesis | 第15-16页 |
| ·Innate semantic structure hypothesis | 第16-17页 |
| ·One-word utterances as speech acts | 第17-18页 |
| ·Gestures in children | 第18-20页 |
| ·Research orientation and key research questions | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter 2 Gesture and Speech in Adults and Children | 第22-33页 |
| ·What is a gesture? | 第22-23页 |
| ·Types of gesture | 第23-24页 |
| ·Gesture and speech form an integrated system | 第24-26页 |
| ·Gesture and speech are semantically coherent | 第25页 |
| ·Gesture and speech are co-temporal | 第25页 |
| ·Gesture and speech develop in parallel | 第25-26页 |
| ·Gesture in children | 第26-31页 |
| ·Types of gesture | 第26-27页 |
| ·Gesture and speech | 第27-30页 |
| ·Implications to the nature of one-word utterances | 第30-31页 |
| ·Detailed research questions and significance of the present research | 第31-33页 |
| ·Detailed research questions | 第31-32页 |
| ·The significance of the present research | 第32-33页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第33-54页 |
| ·Subjects and data collection | 第33页 |
| ·Data segmentation | 第33-34页 |
| ·Transcribing and coding procedures | 第34-54页 |
| ·Coding gestures and multi-word combinations | 第34-36页 |
| ·Coding temporal relations between gesture-speech combinations | 第36-37页 |
| ·Coding semantic relations between gesture-word and multi-word combinations | 第37-40页 |
| ·Coding grammatical relations between gesture-word and multi-word combinations | 第40-48页 |
| ·Criteria for identifying a gesture | 第48-51页 |
| ·Criteria for identifying a word | 第51-53页 |
| ·Criteria for calculating types and tokens | 第53-54页 |
| Chapter 4 Results | 第54-76页 |
| ·General and specific gesture production | 第54-63页 |
| ·Overview | 第54-55页 |
| ·Gesture in different forms | 第55-59页 |
| ·Types of gesture | 第59-63页 |
| ·Semantic relations in combinations | 第63-73页 |
| ·Semantic relations in gesture-word combinations | 第63-65页 |
| ·Grammaitical relations in gesture-word combinations | 第65-66页 |
| ·Semantic relations in argument(s)+predicate combinations | 第66-68页 |
| ·The emergence of syntactic relations in gesture-word and multi-word combinations | 第68-69页 |
| ·The emergence of semantic relations in gesture-word and multi-word combinations | 第69-73页 |
| ·Temporal relationship between gesture and speech combinations | 第73-76页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion | 第76-83页 |
| ·Gestures in the early stages of language development | 第76-77页 |
| ·Semantic relations between gesture and speech | 第77-79页 |
| ·Temporal relations between gesture and speech | 第79页 |
| ·Relations between gesture-word and multi-word combination | 第79-80页 |
| ·Implications to the nature of one-word utterances | 第80-83页 |
| References | 第83-86页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第86-88页 |
| Appendix A 攻读学位期间所发表的学术论文目录 | 第88-90页 |
| Appendix B Coding scheme and notational conventions with illustrative examples of gestures and multi-word combination | 第90-92页 |
| Appendix C Sample Transcription | 第92-94页 |
| Appendix D Examples of the types of semantic relations in supplementary gesture-word combinations and in multi-word combinations | 第94-96页 |
| Appendix E Tables | 第96-104页 |
| Appendix F 详细中文摘要 | 第104-108页 |
