摘要3-4
Abstract4-7
Chapter One Introduction7-13
1.1 Functional Category in Child Grammar7-9
1.2 Different Views of Adult Input9-10
1.3 Significance of the Present Study10-11
1.4 An Overview11-13
Chapter Two Literature Review13-27
2.1 Mandarin Sentence Final Particles13-21
2.1.1 Functions of Sentence Final Particles14-20
2.1.2 Syntactic Analysis of Sentence Final Particles20-21
2.2 Acquisition Studies of Sentence Final Particles and the Comppmentizer Phrase21-24
2.2.1 Acquisition Studies of Sentence Final Particles21-23
2.2.2 Acquisition Studies of the Comppmentizer Phrase23-24
2.3 The Role of Adult Input24-26
2.3.1 The Innateness View24-25
2.3.2 The Input-driven View25-26
2.4 Summary26-27
Chapter Three Research Questions and Methodology27-31
3.1 Research Questions27
3.2 Methodology27-31
3.2.1 Longitudinal Data27-28
3.2.2 Data Processing28-31
Chapter Four Findings of the Present Study31-45
4.1 Child Production31-41
4.1.1 Onset of Productivity31-33
4.1.2 Development of Sentence Final Particles33-35
4.1.3 Children’s Use of Sentence Final Particles35-41
4.2 Adult Input41-45
4.2.1 Adult Input and Child Production41-43
4.2.2 Adult Input and Children’s Onset of Productivity43-45
Chapter Five Discussion45-49
5.1 Children’s Use of Ps: A Comparison45-46
5.2 Adult Input and Child Production46-47
5.3 Is the Functional Category Available in the Initial State?47-49
Chapter Six Conclusions49-51
References51-55
致谢55-57
Appendix57-59
个人简历、在学期间发表的学术论文与探讨成果59