| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| Abstract | 第5-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-10页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第10-13页 |
| ·Rationale for the Study | 第10页 |
| ·The Necessity and Significance in Conducting Research on Avoidance in Production of English Relative Clauses | 第10-12页 |
| ·The General Organization of This Thesis | 第12-13页 |
| Chapter2 Literature Review | 第13-26页 |
| ·English Relative Clauses and Chinese Relative Clauses | 第13-19页 |
| ·English Relative Clauses | 第13-15页 |
| ·Definition | 第13页 |
| ·Head-initial | 第13-14页 |
| ·Relativization process | 第14页 |
| ·Relativization Strategies and Resumptive Pronoun | 第14-15页 |
| ·Center Embedding and Right Embedding | 第15页 |
| ·Chinese Relative Clauses | 第15-19页 |
| ·Definition | 第15-16页 |
| ·Head-final | 第16页 |
| ·Relativization Process and the Relative Marker | 第16-17页 |
| ·Relativization Strategies and the Resumptive Pronoun | 第17-18页 |
| ·Center Embedding and Left Embedding | 第18-19页 |
| ·Similarities and Differences between English and Chinese Relative Clauses | 第19页 |
| ·Research on Markedness and Relative Clauses | 第19-22页 |
| ·The Definition of Markedness | 第19-20页 |
| ·Markedness Differential Hypothesis (MDH) | 第20页 |
| ·Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy (NPAH) | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Manifestation of Markedness in Producing English Relative Clauses Concerning NPAH | 第21-22页 |
| ·Research on Avoidance and Relative Clauses | 第22-26页 |
| ·The Development of Research on Avoidance | 第22-24页 |
| ·The Development of Research on Avoidance of Relative Clauses | 第24-26页 |
| Chapter 3 Methodology | 第26-29页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第26页 |
| ·Experimental Study | 第26-29页 |
| ·Participants | 第26-27页 |
| ·Materials | 第27-28页 |
| ·Procedures | 第28-29页 |
| Chapter 4 Results | 第29-35页 |
| ·The Main Findings from the Research Results | 第30-31页 |
| ·Frequency of Relative Clauses Used by Different Groups | 第30页 |
| ·Frequency of Relative Clauses Used by Different Grades | 第30页 |
| ·Frequency of Relative Clauses Used by Groups under Different Directions | 第30-31页 |
| ·Errors in the Use of Relative Clauses | 第31-32页 |
| ·The Crrectly Used Relative Clauses | 第32-33页 |
| ·Types of Non-Relative Sentences Used by the Participants | 第33-35页 |
| ·Numbers of every type of Non-Relative Sentences | 第33-34页 |
| ·Types of Sentences besides Relative Clauses | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion and Analysis | 第35-50页 |
| ·Data Analysis | 第35-43页 |
| ·Frequency of Relative Clauses | 第35-37页 |
| ·The Error Analysis | 第37-41页 |
| ·Acquisition Order of the Correct Use of Relative Clauses | 第41页 |
| ·Analysis of Types of Sentences besides Relative Clauses | 第41-43页 |
| ·Findings | 第43-50页 |
| ·Frequency of Relative Clauses | 第43-45页 |
| ·Error Categories | 第45-46页 |
| ·Acquisition Order of the Correct Use of Relative Clauses | 第46-50页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion and recommendation | 第50-52页 |
| ·Summary of the Research | 第50页 |
| ·Implications for RC Instruction | 第50-51页 |
| ·Limitation and Further Improvement | 第51-52页 |
| Bibliography | 第52-55页 |
| Appendix | 第55-57页 |
| Paper published(2006-2009) | 第57页 |
