●Chapter 1 Introduction
●1.1 Research Background
●1.2 Regular and Irregular Forms in English
●1.3 Research Questions and Significance
●1.4 Organization of the Dissertation
●Chapter 2 The Theoretical Framework
●2.1 The Single-Mechanism Approach
●2.2 The Dual-Mechanism Approach
●2.3 Diagnostic Devices
●Chapter 3 Literature Review
●3.1 Child First Language Acquisition
●3.2 Adult First Language
●3.3 First Language Disorders
●3.4 Second Language Acquisition
●Chapter 4 The Past Tense Production Task
●4.1 Method
●4.2 Results
●4.3 Discussion
●Chapter 5 The Visual Lexical Decision Task
●5.1 Method
●部分目錄