| Abstract | 第1-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-10页 |
| List of Figures | 第10-11页 |
| List of Tables | 第11-13页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第13-14页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·The Objective of the Study | 第14页 |
| ·Rationale | 第14-17页 |
| ·Key Research Questions | 第17页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第17-18页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第18-27页 |
| ·Theoretical Researches on English Spatial Prepositions | 第18-20页 |
| ·Empirical Researches on English Spatial Prepositions | 第20-25页 |
| ·Studies on Children's Acquisition of Spatial Relations | 第20-21页 |
| ·Studies of the Acquisition of Spatial Relations in a Second Language | 第21-25页 |
| ·Ijaz's Pioneering Work | 第22-23页 |
| ·Becket and Carroll's Study | 第23-24页 |
| ·Ma's Research on the Chinese EFL Learners' Acquisition of L2 Spatial Semantics | 第24-25页 |
| ·Summary | 第25-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Spatial Language and Spatial Categorization in English and Chinese | 第27-36页 |
| ·Cognitive-semantic Analysis of Spatial Words Denoting CONTAINMENT and SUPPORT in English and Chinese | 第27-33页 |
| ·Topological versus Projective/Axial Prepositions | 第27-28页 |
| ·English Spatial Prepositions in and on versus Chinese Nouns of Locality li and shang | 第28-33页 |
| ·CONTAINMENT and SUPPORT Viewed as Two Spatial Categories | 第28-32页 |
| ·Implicational Hierarchy and Its Irreversibility | 第32-33页 |
| ·Idiosyncratic Uses of Spatial Words across English and Chinese | 第33-34页 |
| ·Summary | 第34-36页 |
| Chapter 4 Theoretical Framework | 第36-44页 |
| ·Embodied Meaning and Spatial Experience | 第36-37页 |
| ·Prototype Theory | 第37-41页 |
| ·The Classical versus Prototypical Model of Category Structure | 第37-39页 |
| ·A Prototype Account towards Acquisition of L2 Spatial Semantic Categories | 第39-41页 |
| ·Research Hypotheses | 第41-42页 |
| ·Variables Involved in Hypotheses Testing | 第42-43页 |
| ·Summary | 第43-44页 |
| Chapter 5 Research Design,Instrumentation,Data Collection and Data Analysis | 第44-54页 |
| ·Research Design | 第44-45页 |
| ·Subjects | 第45-46页 |
| ·Instruments | 第46-51页 |
| ·Acceptability Judgment Task(AJT) | 第46-49页 |
| ·Translation Cloze Test(TCT) | 第49-51页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第51-52页 |
| ·Data Scoring | 第52页 |
| ·Scoring of TCT Data | 第52页 |
| ·Scoring of AJT Data | 第52页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第52-53页 |
| ·Summary | 第53-54页 |
| Chapter 6 Results for Research Hypotheses Testing | 第54-68页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 1 | 第54-57页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 1 through Translation Cloze Test(TCT)Data | 第54-56页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 1 through Acceptability Judgment Task(AJT) | 第56-57页 |
| ·Results for Hypothesis 2 | 第57-61页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 2 through Translation Cloze Test(TCT)Data | 第58-59页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 2 through Acceptability Judgment Task(AJT) | 第59-61页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 3 | 第61-63页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 3 through Translation Cloze Test(TCT) | 第61-62页 |
| ·Testing Hypothesis 3 through Acceptability Judgment Task(AJT) | 第62-63页 |
| ·Testing the Correlation between Overlapping Items in the Two Tasks | 第63-66页 |
| ·Summary | 第66-68页 |
| Chapter 7 General Discussion | 第68-73页 |
| ·A Summary of the Research Findings | 第68-71页 |
| ·A Summary of Major Theoretical Findings | 第68-69页 |
| ·A Summary of Findings from the Empirical Research | 第69-71页 |
| ·The Explanatory Power of Prototype Theory for L2 Spatial Semantic Category Acquisition | 第71-72页 |
| ·Summary | 第72-73页 |
| Chapter 8 Conclusions | 第73-77页 |
| ·Conclusion | 第73-74页 |
| ·Implications | 第74-75页 |
| ·Limitations | 第75-76页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第76-77页 |
| References | 第77-83页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ English Proficiency Test | 第83-87页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ Acceptability Judgment Task | 第87-91页 |
| Appendix Ⅲ Translation Cloze Test | 第91-95页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第95页 |
