| Abstract | 第6页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-8页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第8-12页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第12-15页 |
| 1.1 Garden Path Sentences | 第12-13页 |
| 1.2 The Significance and Objectives of the Study | 第13页 |
| 1.3 The Organization of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Research Background | 第15-31页 |
| 2.1 The Definition and Classification of GP Sentences | 第15-20页 |
| 2.1.1 Structural Ambiguity | 第17-18页 |
| 2.1.2 Lexical Ambiguity | 第18-20页 |
| 2.2 Misinterpretation Residual and Disambiguation | 第20-22页 |
| 2.3 The Two-stage Model and the Constraint-based Model | 第22-23页 |
| 2.4 Literature Review | 第23-29页 |
| 2.4.1 Previous Studies on GP Sentences Abroad | 第23-26页 |
| 2.4.2 Previous Domestic Studies on Garden Path Sentences | 第26-29页 |
| 2.5 Summary | 第29-31页 |
| Chapter 3 The Research Methodology | 第31-37页 |
| 3.1 Research Questions | 第31页 |
| 3.2 Subjects | 第31-33页 |
| 3.2.1 The Subjects of Native Chinese Speakers | 第31页 |
| 3.2.2 The Subjects of L2 Learners of Chinese | 第31-33页 |
| 3.3 The Instruments | 第33-35页 |
| 3.4 Procedures | 第35-37页 |
| Chapter 4 Results | 第37-46页 |
| 4.1 Disambiguation and Misinterpretation Residual in Different Types of GP Sentences | 第37-40页 |
| 4.2 Results of Different Types of Chinese GP Sentences | 第40-42页 |
| 4.3 Results of the Learners of the Chinese Language | 第42-46页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion | 第46-54页 |
| 5.1 A Syntactic Analysis of Chinese Garden Path Sentences | 第46-48页 |
| 5.2 The Difficult Hierarchy of Different Types of Chinese GP Sentences | 第48-51页 |
| 5.3 Differences in GP Sentence Comprehension | 第51-54页 |
| 5.3.1 Language Background and the Comprehension of GP Sentence | 第52页 |
| 5.3.2 Language Proficiency and GP Sentence Comprehension | 第52-54页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第54-57页 |
| 6.1 Summary of the Study | 第54-55页 |
| 6.2 Implications | 第55-56页 |
| 6.3 Limitations of the Study and Suggestions for Further Work | 第56-57页 |
| References | 第57-62页 |
| Appendix | 第62-66页 |
