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1. Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Research Purpose and Significance
1.3 Outline of the Thesis
2. Literature Review
2.1 The Definitions and Detections of Formulaicity
2.2 Previous Researches on the Processing of Formulaic Sequences
2.3 Representation in the Mental Lexicon
2.4 Summary
2.5 Research Questions in the Present Study
3. Methodology
3.1 The Working Definition of Formulaic Sequences in the Present Study
3.2 Research Design
3.3 Data collection and analysis
4. Results
4.1 The Phrase-frequency Effect
4.2 The Role of Language Proficiency
4.3 Processing in Contexts
5. Discussion
5.1 The Learning of MEs:The Acquisitional Perspective
5.2 The Processing of MEs:the Representational Perspective
6. Conclusions
6.1 Major Findings
6.2 Implications
6.3 Limitations and Future Directions
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