| ORIGINALITY RESEARCH STATEMENT | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-11页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第11-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第15-23页 |
| ·Developmental Problems in Child Language Acquisition | 第16-18页 |
| ·Preliminary Objectives of the Present Study | 第18页 |
| ·Significance of the Current Study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Organization of the Thesis | 第20-23页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第23-56页 |
| ·Theoretical Studies on Passive Structures | 第23-37页 |
| ·Syntax of Passives in English | 第23-26页 |
| ·Syntax of Passives in Mandarin Chinese | 第26-37页 |
| ·Mandarin Passives---A Brief Introduction | 第27-29页 |
| ·Classification of Passives in Mandarin Chinese | 第29-30页 |
| ·Categorical Features of BEI | 第30-33页 |
| ·Syntactic Structures of Mandarin Passives | 第33-37页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Children's Acquisition of Passives | 第37-46页 |
| ·The Research Done Abroad | 第38-42页 |
| ·The Acquisition of Passives in China | 第42-46页 |
| ·Theoretical Explanation for Children's Acquisition of Passives | 第46-54页 |
| ·A-chain Deficit Hypothesis(Borer & Wexler 1987,1992) | 第46-49页 |
| ·Semantic Transitivity(Maratsos et al.1985) | 第49-50页 |
| ·Theta-transmission(Fox & Grodzisky 1998) | 第50-51页 |
| ·Universal Phase Requirement(Wexler 2004) | 第51-52页 |
| ·Result Passive Hypothesis of UPR(Hirsch & Wexler 2006) | 第52-54页 |
| ·Summary | 第54-56页 |
| Chapter 3 Experiment | 第56-67页 |
| ·Participants | 第56-58页 |
| ·Experiment Materials | 第58-60页 |
| ·Methodology and Procedure | 第60-63页 |
| ·Comprehension Part of the Study | 第60-61页 |
| ·Production Part of the Study | 第61-63页 |
| ·Scoring | 第63-67页 |
| Chapter 4 Experimental Results | 第67-86页 |
| ·Results of Comprehension | 第67-75页 |
| ·Mandarin-speaking Children's Comprehension of Passive with Different Verb Types | 第67-71页 |
| ·Mandarin-speaking Children's Comprehension of Passives with Different Structures | 第71-75页 |
| ·Results of Production | 第75-84页 |
| ·Summary of Experiment Results | 第84-86页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussions | 第86-96页 |
| ·Asymmetry between Passives with Actional Verbs and Non-actional Verbs | 第86-88页 |
| ·Resultative Construction Replacement Strategy | 第88-91页 |
| ·Discrepancy of Children's Comprehension of Passives of Different Structures | 第91-96页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusions and Future Work | 第96-99页 |
| ·Summary of the Thesis | 第96-97页 |
| ·Remaining Issues and Future Work | 第97-99页 |
| References | 第99-110页 |
| Appendix A 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文 | 第110页 |
