| 摘要 | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract | 第7-12页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第12-14页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-22页 |
| ·Research background | 第15-18页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第18-20页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第22-53页 |
| ·Overview of relative clauses | 第22-31页 |
| ·Definition of relative clauses | 第23-25页 |
| ·Classifications of relative clauses | 第25-27页 |
| ·Previous studies on RC acquisition | 第27-31页 |
| ·Comparisons between English and Chinese relative clauses | 第31-38页 |
| ·Formal comparisons of English and Chinese RCs | 第31-33页 |
| ·Functional comparisons of English and Chinese RCs | 第33-38页 |
| ·Studies on language transfer | 第38-42页 |
| ·Overview of language transfer | 第38-40页 |
| ·Language transfer and English RC acquisition | 第40-42页 |
| ·Studies on RC avoidance | 第42-45页 |
| ·Two influential hypotheses on RC acquisition order | 第45-49页 |
| ·Perceptual Difficulty Hypothesis (PDH) | 第46-47页 |
| ·Subject-Object Hierarchy Hypothesis (SOHH) | 第47-49页 |
| ·Contrastive Analysis and Error Analysis | 第49-53页 |
| ·Contrastive analysis (CA) | 第49-51页 |
| ·Error analysis (EA) | 第51-53页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第53-60页 |
| ·Research questions and assumptions | 第53-55页 |
| ·Data collection | 第55-57页 |
| ·Research methods | 第57-59页 |
| ·Procedures | 第59-60页 |
| Chapter Four Results, Data Analysis and Discussion | 第60-85页 |
| ·Frequency of relative clause use | 第60-66页 |
| ·Frequency of relative clause used by different groups | 第60-62页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第62-63页 |
| ·Discussion | 第63-66页 |
| ·Functional analysis of relative clauses | 第66-71页 |
| ·Frequency of four types of RCs in semantic function | 第66-69页 |
| ·Functional analysis | 第69-71页 |
| ·Error analysis of relative clauses | 第71-79页 |
| ·Error Ratios | 第71-72页 |
| ·Error types | 第72-75页 |
| ·Error analysis | 第75-79页 |
| ·Acquisition order of English relative clauses | 第79-85页 |
| ·The use of four main types of relative clauses | 第79-82页 |
| ·Analysis and discussion | 第82-85页 |
| Chapter Five Conclusion | 第85-90页 |
| ·Major findings | 第85-86页 |
| ·Pedagogical implications | 第86-88页 |
| ·Limitations of the present research and suggestions for further study | 第88-90页 |
| References | 第90-95页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第95-96页 |
