| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第1-14页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第14-16页 |
| 摘要 | 第16-17页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅰ Introduction | 第17-21页 |
| ·Background and motivation | 第17-19页 |
| ·Significance of the research | 第19-20页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第20-21页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅱ Literature Review | 第21-39页 |
| ·Clarification of the research domain | 第21-24页 |
| ·A brief review of the previous research | 第24-31页 |
| ·The Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy Hypothesis (NPAH) | 第24-26页 |
| ·Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis (PDH) | 第26-28页 |
| ·Subject-Object Hierarchy Hypothesis (SOHH) | 第28-29页 |
| ·Perspective Shifting Hypothesis (PSH) | 第29-31页 |
| ·Summary of the different predictions | 第31-33页 |
| ·Brief comments on the previous hypotheses | 第31-32页 |
| ·Methodological issues of the previous researches | 第32-33页 |
| ·Influence of animacy on processing relative clauses | 第33-36页 |
| ·The related researches at home | 第36-37页 |
| ·Focus of the present research | 第37-39页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅲ RESEARCH METHODS | 第39-46页 |
| ·Research questions and hypotheses | 第39页 |
| ·Variables | 第39-40页 |
| ·Subjects | 第40-41页 |
| ·Test methods | 第41-43页 |
| ·Testing of sentence combination | 第41-42页 |
| ·Testing of sentence completion | 第42-43页 |
| ·Procedures | 第43页 |
| ·Scoring | 第43-45页 |
| ·Scoring of sentence combination | 第43-44页 |
| ·Scoring of sentence completion | 第44-45页 |
| ·Statistical devices | 第45-46页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅳ RESULTS AND DISCUSSION | 第46-66页 |
| ·Experiment results | 第46-57页 |
| ·Results of sentence combination | 第46-51页 |
| ·Results of the sentence completion test | 第51-56页 |
| ·Answers to the research questions | 第56-57页 |
| ·Discussion | 第57-66页 |
| ·Comparisons of the present results and the previous researches | 第57-59页 |
| ·Effect of RC Sentence Patterns | 第59-62页 |
| ·Effect of the Animacy of Sentential Subject | 第62-64页 |
| ·Effects of the different test measures | 第64-66页 |
| CHAPTER Ⅴ CONCLUSION | 第66-71页 |
| ·Summary of the present study | 第66-67页 |
| ·Implications | 第67-68页 |
| ·Limitations of the present research | 第68-69页 |
| ·Suggestions for Further Study | 第69-71页 |
| REFERENCES | 第71-75页 |
| APPENDIX | 第75-78页 |
