| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| Abbreviations | 第14-15页 |
| Introduction | 第15-19页 |
| Chapter 1 Literature Review | 第19-35页 |
| 1.1 An Overview of Studies on Children’s Conversations | 第19-28页 |
| 1.2 An Overview of Studies on Cohesion | 第28-35页 |
| 1.2.1 A Brief Introduction to Cohesion Theory | 第28-29页 |
| 1.2.2 Studies on Cohesive Devices and Application of Cohesion Theory | 第29-35页 |
| Chapter 2 Development of English and Mandarin-speakingChildren’s Conversation Cohesion | 第35-73页 |
| 2.1 Subjects and Methodology of Research | 第35-36页 |
| 2.2 Data Collection | 第36-37页 |
| 2.3 Development of Grammatical Cohesion in English-speaking andMandarin-speaking Children’s Conversations | 第37-62页 |
| 2.3.1 Mandarin-speaking Children’s Development of GrammaticalCohesion | 第37-51页 |
| 2.3.2 English-speaking Children’s Development of GrammaticalCohesion | 第51-59页 |
| 2.3.3 A Comparative Analysis of English and Mandarin-speaking Children’sGrammatical Cohesion Rules | 第59-62页 |
| 2.4 Development of Lexical Cohesion | 第62-70页 |
| 2.4.1 Mandarin-speaking Children’s Development of Lexical Cohesion | 第62-65页 |
| 2.4.2 English-speaking Children’s Development of Lexical Cohesion | 第65-68页 |
| 2.4.3 Similarities and Differences in Conversational Cohesive Devices Usedby English-speaking and Mandarin-speaking Children | 第68-70页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第70-73页 |
| Chapter 3 Analysis for Use of Cohesive Devices in DifferentConversational Modes | 第73-111页 |
| 3.1 Categories of Conversational Modes | 第73-76页 |
| 3.1.1 Question-Answer Mode (Q-A) | 第73-74页 |
| 3.1.2 Declaration-Response Mode (D-R) | 第74-76页 |
| 3.2 Use of Cohesive Devices in Q-A | 第76-88页 |
| 3.2.1 Characteristics of Mandarin-speaking Children’s Use of CohesiveDevices | 第76-81页 |
| 3.2.2 Characteristics of English-speaking Children’s Use of CohesiveDevices | 第81-86页 |
| 3.2.3 An Analysis of Similarities and Differences of English andMandarin-speaking Children’s Use of Cohesive Devices in Q-A | 第86-88页 |
| 3.3 Use of Cohesive Devices in D-R | 第88-100页 |
| 3.3.1 Mandarin-speaking Children’s Use of Cohesive Devices in D-R | 第88-94页 |
| 3.3.2 English-speaking Children’s Use of Cohesive Devices in D-R | 第94-98页 |
| 3.3.3 A Comparison of English and Mandarin-speaking Children’s Use ofCohesive Devices in D-R | 第98-100页 |
| 3.4 Factors Influencing Children’s Development in Conversational Cohesion | 第100-107页 |
| 3.4.1 Internal Factors | 第100-103页 |
| 3.4.2 External Factors | 第103-107页 |
| 3.5 Summary | 第107-111页 |
| Conclusion | 第111-114页 |
| Bibliography | 第114-118页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第118-119页 |
| Appendix A（攻读学位期间主要研究成果目录） | 第119-120页 |
| Appendix B Tables for Selected Sessions | 第120-122页 |
| Appendix C Tables for Subjects’ Tokens of Conversational Cohesive Devices in Different Conversational Modes | 第122-126页 |
| Appendix D Examples of Conversational Cohesive Devices from MHR, ZHZ, ADA and SAR | 第126-135页 |
| Appendix E Samples of Transcription | 第135-139页 |
| Appendix F (中文长摘要) | 第139-141页 |
