网络环境下英语规则化趋势研究

封面

版权信息

作者简介

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前言

Introduction

Chapter One English Irregular Forms

1.1 Three Major Grammatical Categories of English Irregular Forms

1.2 Etymology of Irregular Forms

Chapter Two Studies on Irregularity

2.1 The Great Past Tense Debate

2.2 Interactions Between Regularity and Irregularity

2.3 Language as an Adaptation to the Cognitive Niche

2.4 Overgeneralization in Children's First Language Development

Chapter Three Globalization of English and Regularity

3.1 Three Circles of Englishes

3.2 British and American English in Relation to Regularity

3.3 Canadian English in Relation to Regularity

3.4 Australian English in Relation to Regularity

3.5 Other Englishes in Relation to Regularity

3.6 Englishes by Internet Users in Relation to Regularity

Chapter Four Methodology

4.1 Revised Wug's Experiment of Irregulars

4.2 Google Search

4.3 Data Collection

Chapter Five Data Analysis and Discussion

5.1 Results of Revised Wug's Experiment of Irregulars

5.2 Case Studies of the Regularized Plurals of the Ten Most Frequently Used Irregular Nouns

5.3 Case Studies of the Regularized Past-Tense Forms of the Ten Most Frequently Used Irregular Verbs

5.4 Case Studies of the Few Irregular Comparatives and Superlatives of Adjectives or Adverbs

5.5 Regularization，Tendency of the Most Frequently Used Irregulars

5.6 Case Studies of Overregularized Forms of the Most Frequently Used Irregulars

5.7 Frequency Difference in Use Between Regular and Irregular Plurals with Dictionary Indication for Either Form

5.8 Other Irregular Plurals

5.9 Frequency Difference in Use Between Regular and Irregular Verbs with Dictionary Indication for Either Form

5.10 Other Irregular Verbs

5.11 Internet Evidence for the Right-Hand Head Rule

5.12 Internet Evidence for Systematic Regularization of Irregulars

5.13 General Tendency of Regularization

Chapter Six Conclusion