| Acknowledgement | 第1-5页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第5-9页 |
| 摘要 | 第9-14页 |
| Chapter Ⅰ Introduction | 第14-24页 |
| ·Preliminaries about Garden Path Sentences | 第14-16页 |
| ·Previous Investigations into Garden Path Sentences and Significance of the Cunent Study | 第16-18页 |
| ·A Brief Survey of Previous Investigations into Garden path | 第16-18页 |
| ·Significance of the Investigation into Garden Path Sentences | 第18页 |
| ·Research Objectives and Basic Assumptions | 第18-20页 |
| ·Methodological Approaches and Data | 第20-22页 |
| ·Layout of the Dissertation | 第22-24页 |
| Chapter Ⅱ A Historical Review of Researches on Language Comprehension and Garden Path Sentences | 第24-38页 |
| ·Introduction | 第24页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Language Comprehension and Sentence Parsing | 第24-28页 |
| ·The Serial Two-Stage Model | 第25-26页 |
| ·The Parallel Processing Model | 第26-27页 |
| ·The Model for Sentence Reanalysis | 第27-28页 |
| ·Previous Studies on Garden Path Sentences | 第28-30页 |
| ·Studies on Garden Path Sentences Based On Psycholinguistics | 第28-29页 |
| ·Studies Based On Grammatical and Thematic Analysis | 第29-30页 |
| ·Studies on Garden Path Sentences in China | 第30-33页 |
| ·New Trend in the Study of Language comprehension and Garden Path Sentences | 第33-36页 |
| ·New Trend in the Study of Language comprehension | 第33-34页 |
| ·New Trend in the Study of Garden Path Sentences | 第34-36页 |
| ·Summary | 第36-38页 |
| Chapter Ⅲ Research Design and Process | 第38-48页 |
| ·Introduction | 第38页 |
| ·General and Specific Assumptions | 第38-39页 |
| ·Comprehension Test | 第39-47页 |
| ·Subjects | 第40页 |
| ·Design and stimuli | 第40-44页 |
| ·Procedure | 第44-45页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第45-47页 |
| ·Summary | 第47-48页 |
| Chapter Ⅳ Results and Discussion | 第48-72页 |
| ·Introduction | 第48页 |
| ·Experiment Results | 第48-67页 |
| ·Incorrect Responses to the Subordinate Clause and Main Clause of Garden Path Sentences | 第56-58页 |
| ·Incorrect Responses to Subordinate Clause of Garden Path and Non-Garden Path Sentences | 第58-60页 |
| ·Incorrect Responses to Subordinate Clause of Plausible and Implausible Garden Path Sentences | 第60-62页 |
| ·Incorrect Responses to Garden Path and Non-Garden Path Sentences Containing RAT Verbs | 第62-66页 |
| ·Correlation with Subjects’English Language Proficiency | 第66-67页 |
| ·General Discussion | 第67-71页 |
| ·Evidence for Partial Analysis and Incomplete Representations | 第67-68页 |
| ·Evidence for Thematic Role Persistence | 第68-69页 |
| ·Evidence for Semantic Plausibility Influence | 第69-70页 |
| ·Evidence for Correlation with Subjects’English Proficiency | 第70-71页 |
| ·Summary | 第71-72页 |
| Chapter Ⅴ Conclusion | 第72-80页 |
| ·Introductions | 第72页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第72-74页 |
| ·Implications | 第74-77页 |
| ·Theoretical Implications | 第74-76页 |
| ·Practical Implications | 第76-77页 |
| ·Limitations | 第77-78页 |
| ·Recommendation for Future Studies | 第78-80页 |
| References | 第80-84页 |
| APPENDIX | 第84-88页 |
