| Acknowledgements | 第1-6页 |
| 中文摘要 | 第6-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-9页 |
| Contents | 第9-12页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第12-17页 |
| ·Background of the Study | 第12-14页 |
| ·Objectives and Research Questions | 第14-16页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第16-17页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第17-32页 |
| ·Definition of Syntactic Priming | 第17-18页 |
| ·Methodologies and Techniques Used in Syntactic Priming | 第18-22页 |
| ·Spoken Picture Description | 第18-19页 |
| ·Written Sentence Completion | 第19-20页 |
| ·Sentence Recall | 第20-21页 |
| ·Confederate Scripting | 第21-22页 |
| ·Syntactic Priming in Monolingual Speakers | 第22-25页 |
| ·Findings on Monolingual Syntactic Priming | 第22-24页 |
| ·An Activation Account vs. An Implicit Learning Account | 第24-25页 |
| ·Syntactic Priming in Bilingual Speakers | 第25-32页 |
| ·Cross Language Syntactic Priming | 第26-28页 |
| ·With-in Second Language Syntactic Priming | 第28-32页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Underpinnings | 第32-43页 |
| ·Models on Language Production | 第32-36页 |
| ·Bock and Levelt’s Spreading Activation Model of Lexical Access | 第32-35页 |
| ·The Meme Theory | 第35-36页 |
| ·Syntactic Representation: What is Shared between L1 and L2? | 第36页 |
| ·Sentence Structure | 第36-43页 |
| ·English | 第37-38页 |
| ·Chinese | 第38-43页 |
| Chapter Four Research and Discussion | 第43-73页 |
| ·Research Methodology | 第43-49页 |
| ·Corpora Selected | 第43-44页 |
| ·Tools Employed | 第44-45页 |
| ·Data Collection and Classification | 第45-46页 |
| ·Data Filtering and Analysis | 第46-48页 |
| ·General Prediction | 第48-49页 |
| ·Research One —— Transitive Utterances | 第49-56页 |
| ·General Investigation on ICE-GB | 第50-51页 |
| ·General Investigation on Sub-SECCL2.0 | 第51-53页 |
| ·Comparison between Native and Bilingual Language Data | 第53-55页 |
| ·Research Summary | 第55-56页 |
| ·Research Two——The Dative Alternation | 第56-66页 |
| ·General Investigation on ICE-GB | 第56-59页 |
| ·General Investigation on sub-SECCL2.0 | 第59-62页 |
| ·Verb-Specific Investigation | 第62-65页 |
| ·Research Summary | 第65-66页 |
| ·Discussion | 第66-71页 |
| ·Syntactic Representation and Processing in Chinese EFL Learners | 第66-70页 |
| ·The Relationship between the Experimental Approach and the Corpus Approach | 第70-71页 |
| ·Summary | 第71-73页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第73-78页 |
| ·Summary of the Major Findings | 第73-76页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study and Future Research | 第76-77页 |
| ·Closing Remarks | 第77-78页 |
| Bibliography | 第78-84页 |
| Appendix | 第84-85页 |
| List of Figures and Tables | 第85-87页 |
| List of Figures | 第85页 |
| List of Tables | 第85-86页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第86-87页 |
