List of Abbreviations 1
Chapter 1 Introduction 1
1.1 The Research Topic 2
1.2 Language Acquisition Approaches 6
1.3 Methodology and Corpus 9
1.4 Layout of This Book 17
Chapter 2 Literature Review 19
2.1 Introduction 19
2.2 Harris's Discovery Procedures 21
2.3 New Theoretical Thinking of Lin 34
2.4 Researches of Discovery Procedures in Psycholinguistics and Artificial Intelligence 45
2.5 Summary 51
Chapter 3 Language,Language Acquisition，and Discovery Procedures 52
3.1 The Nature of Language 53
3.2 The Nature of Discovery Procedures 63
3.3 Discovery Procedures in Phonology Acquisition 66
3.4 Discovery Procedures in Morphology Acquisition 74
3.5 Discovery Procedures in Syntax Acquisition 84
3.6 Summary 96
Chapter 4 Discovering Grammatical Elements 97
4.1 Introduction 98
4.2 Preliminary Operations 99
4.3 Discovering Morphemic Segments 108
4.4 Discovering Morphemes 191
4.5 Discovering Morpheme Classes 202
4.6 Summary 217
Chapter 5 Computer Simulation of Discovery Procedures 218
5.1 Tools 219
5.2 The Principles Under the Programs 220
5.3 Program to Discover Characters 222
5.4 Program to Discover Words with a Group of Suffixes 227
5.5 Summary 232
Chapter 6 Conclusions and Future Research 233
6.1 Major Findings 233
6.2 Implications 237
6.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Research 238
Bibliography 241
Appendix Ⅰ 251
Appendix Ⅱ 257
Appendix Ⅲ 261
Appendix Ⅳ 270
后记 275