| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第7-8页 |
| List of Tables | 第8-9页 |
| List of Figures | 第9-10页 |
| Contents | 第10-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-19页 |
| ·Research Background | 第12-13页 |
| ·Importance and Research Questions of the Study | 第13-15页 |
| ·Importance of Lexical Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Significance of Word Length and Word Length Frequency Study | 第14-15页 |
| ·Introduction to MEE and CET4 | 第15-18页 |
| ·Introduction to MEE | 第15-16页 |
| ·Introduction to CET4 | 第16-18页 |
| ·Layout of the Thesis | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第19-29页 |
| ·History and Major Models for Word Length Study | 第19-21页 |
| ·History of Word Length study | 第19页 |
| ·Major Models for Word Length Frequency Distribution | 第19-21页 |
| ·On the Definition of Word | 第21-23页 |
| ·On Syllable | 第23-25页 |
| ·Syllable Structure | 第23-24页 |
| ·Syllable Division | 第24页 |
| ·Syllable as Measuring Unit of Word Length | 第24-25页 |
| ·ESP | 第25-27页 |
| ·Hapax legomena | 第27页 |
| ·Coefficient of Determination | 第27-29页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第29-40页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第29-31页 |
| ·Corpus-based Approach | 第29-30页 |
| ·Quantitative Linguistics Method | 第30-31页 |
| ·Corpora Used | 第31-35页 |
| ·Classification of Corpora | 第31-32页 |
| ·CET4 | 第32-33页 |
| ·MEE | 第33-35页 |
| ·Tools for Data Collection and Analysis | 第35-36页 |
| ·Perl Programming Language | 第35-36页 |
| ·SPSS | 第36页 |
| ·Procedures for Data Collection | 第36-40页 |
| ·Tokenization | 第37页 |
| ·Lemmatization | 第37-38页 |
| ·The Computation of Syllabic Word Length | 第38-40页 |
| Chapter 4 Results and Analysis | 第40-68页 |
| ·Comparison of Mean Syllabic Word Length and Frequency Distribution Between CET4 and MEE | 第40-45页 |
| ·Comparison of Mean Syllabic Word Length Between CET4 and MEE | 第40-42页 |
| ·Comparison of the Frequency Distribution Between CET4 and MEE | 第42-45页 |
| ·Words Shared by CET4 and MEE | 第45-52页 |
| ·Comparison Between MEE-only Words and CET4-only Words | 第52-57页 |
| ·Comparison of Mean Syllabic Word Length Between MEE-only Words and CET4-only Words | 第52-55页 |
| ·Comparison of Frequency Distribution Between MEE-only Words and CET4-only Words | 第55-57页 |
| ·MEE-only Vocabulary | 第57-63页 |
| ·Syllabic Features of High Frequency and Low Frequency Words in MEE-only Vocabulary | 第57-59页 |
| ·Personal Names and Place Names in MEE-only Vocabulary | 第59-62页 |
| ·Word Origins in MEE-only Vocabulary | 第62-63页 |
| ·Syllabic Word Lengths of Hapax legomena in MEE, CET4, Shared Words, MEE-only Words and CET4-only Words | 第63-66页 |
| ·The Relation Between Syllabic Word Length and Syllable Length | 第66-68页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第68-71页 |
| ·Major Findings of the Study | 第68-69页 |
| ·Some Pedagogical Implications | 第69页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第69-71页 |
| References | 第71-75页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ | 第75-80页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ | 第80-82页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第82-83页 |
| Resume | 第83页 |
