| 摘要 | 第1-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-11页 |
| List of Abbreviations | 第11-13页 |
| List of Tables | 第13-14页 |
| List of Figures | 第14-15页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第15-22页 |
| ·Research Background | 第15-17页 |
| ·Research Objectives | 第17-20页 |
| ·Structure of the Thesis | 第20-22页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第22-43页 |
| ·Conceptual Definitions of Key Terms | 第22-26页 |
| ·Definitions and Structures of Relative Clauses | 第22-23页 |
| ·Classification of Relative Clauses | 第23-26页 |
| ·Comparison of Relative Clauses between English and Chinese | 第26-27页 |
| ·Review of Previous Studies | 第27-43页 |
| ·Studies of RC Acquisition Abroad | 第28-36页 |
| ·Avoidance | 第28-29页 |
| ·Typological Markedness | 第29-30页 |
| ·Syntactic Complexity | 第30-31页 |
| ·Filler-Gap Distance | 第31-33页 |
| ·Working Memory Limitations | 第33-34页 |
| ·Information Flow Hypothesis | 第34-35页 |
| ·Semantic Properties of Noun Phrases | 第35-36页 |
| ·Studies of RC Acquisition at Home | 第36-38页 |
| ·Summary of Previous Studies | 第38-43页 |
| Chapter Three Research Methodology | 第43-50页 |
| ·Corpus Description | 第43-45页 |
| ·Data Collection | 第45-46页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第46-50页 |
| ·Data Coding | 第46-48页 |
| ·Frequency Distributions of Subject and Object Relative Clauses | 第48页 |
| ·Comparison between English Majors of Different Proficiency Levels | 第48页 |
| ·Analysis of Errors Identified in Data | 第48-50页 |
| Chapter Four Results | 第50-62页 |
| ·Frequency Distributions of RCs | 第50-54页 |
| ·Frequency Distributions of Subject and Object RCs in General | 第50-51页 |
| ·Frequency Distributions of Subject and Object RCs between LG and HG | 第51-52页 |
| ·Frequency Distributions of the Four Types | 第52-54页 |
| ·Accuracy of RCs Produced by HG and LG | 第54-62页 |
| ·Error Ratios | 第54-56页 |
| ·Error Types | 第56-62页 |
| Chapter Five Analysis and Discussion | 第62-78页 |
| ·Frequency of RCs | 第62-69页 |
| ·General Avoidance Phenomenon in RC Processing | 第62-64页 |
| ·Subject-object Asymmetry Analysis | 第64-66页 |
| ·Acquisition Order of the Four Types of RCs | 第66-69页 |
| ·Correlation between the RC Acquisition and Language Proficiency | 第69-71页 |
| ·Error Analysis | 第71-78页 |
| ·Error Ratios | 第71-72页 |
| ·Error Categories and the Possible Causes | 第72-78页 |
| ·The Distributions of Errors | 第72-73页 |
| ·The Possible Causes of the Identified Errors | 第73-78页 |
| Chapter Six Conclusion | 第78-84页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第78-81页 |
| ·Implications of the Present Study | 第81-82页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions for Further Study | 第82-84页 |
| Bibliography | 第84-90页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第90-91页 |
| 已发表论文 | 第91-92页 |
