by Ng, Shuk Han., Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998., Includes bibliographical references (leaves 162-168)., also in Chinese., Chapter Chapter 1 --- Introduction, Chapter 1.1 --- An overview --- p.1, Chapter 1.2 --- Previous research --- p.3, Chapter 1.2.1 --- "White and Trahey (White 1991, White & Trahey 1993, Trahey 1996)" --- p.4, Chapter 1.2.2 --- Research on acquisition of Chinese as a second language --- p.7, Chapter 1.3 --- Adverbial placement in English and Chinese and the learnability problems --- p.9, Chapter 1.4 --- IL Problems predicted --- p.13, Chapter Chapter 2 --- A descriptive account of adverbial placement in English and Chinese, Chapter 2.1 --- Adverbial placement in English --- p.20, Chapter 2.1.1 --- The placement of the manner and D/F adverbials --- p.20, Chapter 2.1.2 --- Some exceptions to the general patterns --- p.23, Chapter 2.2 --- Adverbial placement in Chinese --- p.24, Chapter 2.2.1 --- The placement of the manner and D/F adverbials --- p.24, Chapter 2.2.2 --- Further discussion of Chinese adverbial placement --- p.29, Chapter 2.2.3 --- Definiteness effects in Chinese --- p.35, Chapter Chapter 3 --- Theoretical accounts for adverbial placement, Chapter 3.1 --- The accounts for English adverbial placement --- p.42, Chapter 3.1.1 --- The placement of English AdvP adverbials --- p.42, Chapter 3.1.1.1 --- Pollock (1989) --- p.43, Chapter 3.1.1.2 --- Bowers (1993) --- p.45, Chapter 3.1.2 --- The placement of English NP and PP adverbials --- p.51, Chapter 3.2 --- The accounts for Chinese adverbial placement --- p.53, Chapter 3.2.1 --- The placement of Chinese manner adverbials --- p.53, Chapter 3.2.2 --- The placement of Chinese D/F adverbials --- p.60, Chapter 3.2.2.1 --- Ernst (1996) --- p.60, Chapter 3.2.2.2 --- Huang (1992) --- p.62, Chapter 3.2.2.3 --- Tang (1990) --- p.66, Chapter 3.3. --- Conclusion --- p.69, Chapter Chapter 4 --- The experiment and the results, Chapter 4.1 --- The subjects --- p.71, Chapter 4.2 --- The experiment --- p.72, Chapter 4.2.1 --- The production task --- p.72, Chapter 4.2.2 --- The grammaticality judgment task --- p.73, Chapter 4.3 --- The procedures --- p.81, Chapter 4.4 --- Overall results --- p.82, Chapter 4.4.1 --- The production task --- p.82, Chapter 4.4.1.1 --- The scoring procedure --- p.83, Chapter 4.4.1.2 --- The results --- p.86, Chapter 4.4.2 --- The grammaticality judgment task --- p.90, Chapter 4.4.2.1 --- The scoring procedure --- p.90, Chapter 4.4.2.2 --- The results --- p.92, Chapter 4.4.2.2.1 --- The placement of manner adverbials --- p.93, Chapter 4.4.2.2.2 --- The placement of D/F adverbials --- p.95, Chapter 4.4.2.2.3 --- The placement of other adverbials --- p.104, Chapter 4.4.2.2.4 --- The co-occurrence of manner and D/F adverbials --- p.108, Chapter 4.4.3 --- Individual learners' performance --- p.115, Chapter 4.4.3.1 --- GP 1 learners --- p.115, Chapter 4.4.3.2 --- GP 2 learners --- p.119, Chapter 4.5 --- Possible shortcomings of the experiment --- p.121, Chapter Chapter 5 --- Discussion and conclusion, Chapter 5 .1. --- The hypotheses --- p.123, Chapter 5 .2. --- Some important issues --- p.125, Chapter 5.2.1 --- Little evidence of transfer --- p.126, Chapter 5.2.2 --- VMO --- p.128, Chapter 5.2.3 --- MDFVO and DFMVO --- p.129, Chapter 5.2.4 --- Overgeneralization --- p.129, Chapter 5.2.5 --- Lack of awareness of different placement patterns for different adverbials by GP 1 --- p.131, Chapter 5.2.6 --- Inconsistency in judgments --- p.133, Chapter 5.2.7 --- Why was adverbial placement learnable? --- p.134, Chapter 5.3 --- The developmental stages of acquiring Chinese adverbial placement --- p.137, Chapter 5.3.1 --- The unlearning of postverbal manner adverbials --- p.137, Chapter 5.3.2 --- Optionality of verb raising and adverbial adjunction pattern --- p.143, Chapter 5.3.3 --- Adjunction order of manner and D/F adverbials --- p.150, Chapter 5.3.4 --- Why is adverbial placement learnable? --- p.152, Chapter 5.3.5 --- Competence and performance --- p.156, Chapter 5.4 --- Conclusion --- p.157, Chapter 5.4.1 --- The findings --- p.157, Chapter 5.4.2 --- The questions for future research --- p.158, Bibliography --- p.162, Appendix A --- p.169, Appendix B --- p.172, http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889670, Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)