| ABSTRACT | 第1-8页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-9页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第9-13页 |
| Chapterl Introduction | 第13-16页 |
| ·The Purposes and Significance of the Study | 第13-14页 |
| ·Organization of the thesis | 第14-16页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第16-35页 |
| ·Theoretical Studies on Donkey Sentences | 第16-31页 |
| ·Theoretical Studies on Donkey Sentences in English | 第16-18页 |
| ·Theoretical Studies on Donkey Sentences in Chinese | 第18-31页 |
| ·Two-Type Analysis of Donkey Conditionals | 第19-25页 |
| ·One-Type Analysis of Donkey Conditionals | 第25-29页 |
| ·Three-Type Analysis of Donkey Sentences | 第29页 |
| ·'Wh-…Wh-' Correlative Structure | 第29-31页 |
| ·Child Acquisition Studies on Donkey Sentences | 第31-34页 |
| ·Previous Child Acquisition Studies in English | 第32页 |
| ·Acquisition Studies in Mandarin Chinese | 第32-34页 |
| ·Limitations of the Previous Studies | 第34-35页 |
| Chapter 3 Experiment | 第35-49页 |
| ·Research Questions | 第35页 |
| ·Research Method | 第35-37页 |
| ·Participants | 第37-38页 |
| ·Stimuli | 第38-47页 |
| ·Procedure | 第47-49页 |
| ·The Pilot Study | 第47-48页 |
| ·The Formal Study | 第48-49页 |
| Chapter 4 Results | 第49-69页 |
| ·Results of the Adult Group | 第49-50页 |
| ·Results of the Filler Sentences | 第50页 |
| ·Results of the Experiment Groups | 第50-67页 |
| ·Group Results | 第51-65页 |
| ·Between Group Analysis | 第53-58页 |
| ·Within Group Analysis | 第58-65页 |
| ·Individual Results | 第65-67页 |
| ·A Brief Summary of the Results | 第67-69页 |
| Chapter 5 Discussion | 第69-74页 |
| ·Discussion on the Types of Donkey Sentences | 第69-70页 |
| ·Discussion on the Two Readings of Donkey Sentences | 第70-72页 |
| ·Discussion on the Distribution of Wh-words | 第72-74页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第74-76页 |
| ·Major Findings and Implications of the Present Study | 第74-75页 |
| ·Limitations of the Present Study | 第75-76页 |
| References | 第76-80页 |
| Appendix1 | 第80-89页 |
| Appendix2 | 第89-97页 |
