| ABSTRACT | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-14页 |
| ·Background of the Research | 第12页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第14-28页 |
| ·Speech Error Experiments Review | 第14-19页 |
| ·Study of Speech Errors in Sign Languages | 第15页 |
| ·Experiment on Ape's "speech error" | 第15-16页 |
| ·Speech Error Experiment on Children | 第16-18页 |
| ·Speech Error Experiment of Psycholinguists | 第18页 |
| ·Priming Experiments | 第18-19页 |
| ·Types of Speech Errors | 第19-21页 |
| ·Characteristics & Common Properties of Speech Errors | 第21-23页 |
| ·Evidence from Tip-of-the-Tongue States | 第23-25页 |
| ·Models of Word Form Retrieval | 第25-28页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第28-48页 |
| ·Research Design in Brief | 第28-32页 |
| ·Subjects | 第28页 |
| ·Previous Preparation | 第28-31页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第31-32页 |
| ·Analyzing Steps | 第32-41页 |
| ·Result & Discussion | 第41-48页 |
| Chapter Four Major Plausible Explanations for Speech Error | 第48-62页 |
| ·Various Language Processing Models | 第48-51页 |
| ·Fromkin's Model of Speech Production | 第48-49页 |
| ·Situational Model | 第49页 |
| ·Evidence from Speech Errors | 第49-51页 |
| ·Working Memory | 第51-54页 |
| ·Three Levels of Memory | 第51-53页 |
| ·Memory for Sentences | 第53-54页 |
| ·Explanation from the Point of View of Cross-cultural Differences | 第54-62页 |
| ·Content Words & Function Words | 第54-55页 |
| ·Interference of Chinese | 第55-56页 |
| ·Grammatical Differences among Languages | 第56-57页 |
| ·Words of Measurement | 第57页 |
| ·Number Terms | 第57-58页 |
| ·Attributive Clause | 第58-59页 |
| ·Positive Transfer & Negative Transfer | 第59-62页 |
| Chapter Five Other Plausible Explanations | 第62-78页 |
| ·Plural Form & Singular Form | 第62-64页 |
| ·Inflectional Morphemes | 第62页 |
| ·Consequence of Adding Affixes | 第62-63页 |
| ·Plural Morpheme/s/ | 第63-64页 |
| ·Countable Nouns & Uncountable Nouns | 第64页 |
| ·Synonymy | 第64-66页 |
| ·Negative Consequence of the Dictionary | 第64-65页 |
| ·Lexical Ambiguity | 第65-66页 |
| ·Self- monitoring | 第66-68页 |
| ·Word Frequency | 第68-69页 |
| ·Alternation of Pausing and Speech Parts | 第69-70页 |
| ·Fillers Such as Un,Ah,or Um in Verbal Communication | 第69页 |
| ·Explanation for Only the Beginning Phenomenon | 第69-70页 |
| ·Cohesion | 第70-72页 |
| ·Indefinite Article & Definite Article | 第70-71页 |
| ·Anaphoric and Cataphoric Reference | 第71-72页 |
| ·Explanation for "Similar Sounds Errors" | 第72页 |
| ·The Easier the Material,the Better the Performance | 第72-75页 |
| ·Inaccessibility of knowledge | 第73-74页 |
| ·Less Skilled Speakers | 第74-75页 |
| ·Explanations for Speech Errors at Different Parts of a Sentence | 第75-78页 |
| ·Explanation for Better Beginning & Better Ending | 第75页 |
| ·Explanation for Start-overs | 第75-76页 |
| ·End/Change Utterance in the Middle | 第76-78页 |
| Chapter Six Minor Possible Explanations | 第78-82页 |
| ·Exposure to Social Context | 第78页 |
| ·The Longer the Word,the Worse the Memory | 第78-79页 |
| ·Speaking Rates | 第79页 |
| ·Individual Differences in Working Memory & Reading Span | 第79-80页 |
| ·Memorizing a Passage without a Title | 第80页 |
| ·Nervousness & Anxiety | 第80-82页 |
| Chapter Seven Solutions to Speech Errors | 第82-86页 |
| ·Active Processing | 第82页 |
| ·Self-reference Effect | 第82页 |
| ·Connecting Propositions in Discourse | 第82-83页 |
| ·Identifying the Main Points | 第83页 |
| ·Decrease in the Use of Chinese | 第83页 |
| ·Similar-Pronounced Words Explained at the Same Time | 第83-86页 |
| Chapter Eight Conclusion | 第86-90页 |
| ·Multi-angle Analysis of the Paper | 第86页 |
| ·New Findings | 第86-87页 |
| ·Limitation of the Paper | 第87页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Studies | 第87-90页 |
| BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第90-94页 |
| APPENDIX | 第94-106页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第106-108页 |
| PUBLISHED PAPERS | 第108页 |
