前  言  
list 0fabbreviations　 
chapter 1 introducfion　 
　1．1 the research topic　
　1．2 language acquisition approaches  
　1．3 methodology and corpus  
　1．4 layout ofthis book　 
chapter 2 lrerature review　 
　2．1 introducfion
　2．2 harris’s discovery procedures   
　2．3 new theoretical thinking oflin
　2．4 researches ofdiscovery procedures in psycholmguisfics
　and artificial intelligence　 
　2．5 summary　
chapter 3 language，language acquisition，and discovery procednres．　　
　3．1 the nature oflanguage  
　3．2 the nature ofdiscovery procedures　
　3．3 discoveryproceduresinphonologyacquisition
　3．4 discovery procedures in morphology acquisition 
　3．5 discovery procedures in syntax acquisition
　3．6 summary．　　
chapter 4 discovering grammatical elements
　4．1 introduction　　   
　4．2 preliminary operations   
　4．3 discovering morphemic segments　
　4．4 discovering morphemes．　   
　4．5 discovering morpheme classes 
　4． summary   
chapter 5 computer simulation of discovery procedures
　5．1 tools　  
　5．2 the principles under the programs
　5．3 program to discover characters  
　5．4 program to discover words with a group ofsuffixes
　5．5 summary　
chapter 6 conclusions and future research，
　6．1 majorfindings　
　6．2 implications　
　6．3 limimtions and suggestions for future research
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