| CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION | 第1-19页 |
| ·RESEARCH ORIENTATION | 第14-15页 |
| ·SENTENCE PROCESSING | 第15页 |
| ·RESEARCH RATIONALE | 第15-17页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第17-19页 |
| CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW ON THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK | 第19-32页 |
| ·OVERVIEW | 第19页 |
| ·THE COMPETITION MODEL | 第19-29页 |
| ·Theoretical Background | 第19-20页 |
| ·Description of the Competition Model | 第20-26页 |
| ·Form-function Mapping | 第21-22页 |
| ·Cue Strength | 第22页 |
| ·Cue Validity | 第22-24页 |
| ·Cue Competition | 第24-26页 |
| ·The Competition Model and Monolingual Children's Native Sentence Processing | 第26-28页 |
| ·The Competition Model and L2 Learners'Sentence Processing | 第28-29页 |
| ·COMPARISON BETWEEN CHINESE AND ENGLISH SENTENCE PROCESSING STRATEGIES | 第29-31页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第31-32页 |
| CHAPTER 3 RELATED LITERATURE ON EMPIRICAL STUDIES | 第32-38页 |
| ·OVERVIEW | 第32页 |
| ·EMPIRICAL STUDIES ON L2 LEARNERS'SENTENCE PROCESSING | 第32-33页 |
| ·SO,I.R.'S STUDY | 第33-34页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS OF SU'S STUDY | 第34-35页 |
| ·RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESES | 第35-37页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第37-38页 |
| CHAPTER 4 THE STUDY | 第38-49页 |
| ·OVERVIEW | 第38页 |
| ·THE PRESENT STUDY | 第38-48页 |
| ·Research Design | 第38-39页 |
| ·Subjects | 第39-40页 |
| ·Material | 第40-43页 |
| ·Procedures | 第43-46页 |
| ·Scoring and Analytical Methods | 第46-47页 |
| ·Predictions for the Experiment Result | 第47-48页 |
| ·SUMMARY | 第48-49页 |
| CHAPTER 5 RESULTS OF THE STUDY | 第49-88页 |
| ·OVERVIEW | 第49-50页 |
| ·RESULTS OF THE SUBJECT/AGENT CHOICE | 第50-77页 |
| ·Chinese Sentence Processing | 第51-65页 |
| ·The ANOVA Result of the Subject/Agent Choice in Chinese Sentence Processing | 第52-54页 |
| ·The Comparison of Experimental Variance Accounted for by Animacy and Word Order in Chinese Sentence Processing | 第54-55页 |
| ·Chinese Sentence Processing for Various Word Orders and Various Noun Combinations | 第55-61页 |
| ·Subjects'Performance on Different Sentence Types | 第61-64页 |
| ·Summary | 第64-65页 |
| ·English Sentence Processing | 第65-77页 |
| ·The ANOVA Result of the Subject/Agent Choice in English Sentence Processing | 第65-68页 |
| ·The Comparison of Experimental Variance Accounted for by Animacy and Word Order in English Sentence Processing | 第68-69页 |
| ·English Sentence Processing for Various Word Orders and Various Noun Combinations | 第69-73页 |
| ·Subjects'Performance on Different Sentence Types | 第73-75页 |
| ·Summary | 第75-77页 |
| ·SENTENCES WITH AA COMBINATION | 第77-82页 |
| ·The ANOVA Result of the Subject/Agent Choice for Sentences with AA combination | 第77-80页 |
| ·Processing for various word orders | 第80-82页 |
| ·RESULTS OF REACTION TIME (RT) | 第82-86页 |
| ·Chinese Sentence Processing | 第83-85页 |
| ·English sentence processing | 第85-86页 |
| ·Summary | 第86页 |
| ·SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS OF BOTH THE SUBJECT/AGENT CHOICE AND RT | 第86-88页 |
| CHAPTER 6 DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION | 第88-95页 |
| ·OVERVIEW | 第88页 |
| ·MAJOR FINDINGS OF THE PRESENT STUDY | 第88-89页 |
| ·DISCUSSION FOR THE FINDINGS | 第89-92页 |
| ·LIMITATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS | 第92-93页 |
| ·CONCLUSION | 第93-95页 |
| APPENDICES | 第95-98页 |
| REFERENCES | 第98-100页 |
