| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-15页 |
| ·The Relation between Categorization and Language | 第11-12页 |
| ·Main Contents in This Thesis | 第12-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-30页 |
| ·Category and Categorization | 第15-24页 |
| ·The Classical Theory of Categorization | 第15-19页 |
| ·Modern Cognitive Theories of Categorization | 第19-24页 |
| ·The Semantic Feature Hypothesis | 第24-27页 |
| ·Assimilation and Accommodation | 第27-30页 |
| Chapter 3 Children's Early Vocabulary Development and Word Meaning Types | 第30-38页 |
| ·The Vocabulary Development | 第30-35页 |
| ·The Classification of Word Meanings | 第35-38页 |
| ·Common Meaning and Scholarly Meaning | 第35页 |
| ·Individual Meaning and Categorical Meaning | 第35-38页 |
| Chapter 4 Analysis of Children's Semantic Acquisition of Nouns | 第38-58页 |
| ·The Formation of Prototype and Acquisition of Primitive Individual Meaning | 第39-41页 |
| ·The Typification of Prototype and Acquisition of Categorical Meaning | 第41-49页 |
| ·Denotational Transfer and Prototype Matching | 第42-46页 |
| ·Matching Estimation and Re-matching | 第46-49页 |
| ·Acquisition Mechanism | 第49-51页 |
| ·Children's Semantic Knowledge and Conceptual Knowledge | 第51-54页 |
| ·Semantic Acquisition and the Conceptual Development | 第54-58页 |
| Chapter 5 Conclusion | 第58-61页 |
| Appendix | 第61-64页 |
| Works Cited | 第64-67页 |
| 攻读硕士学位期间发表的论文和取得的科研成果 | 第67页 |
