| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第8-14页 |
| CHAPTER ONE GENERAL INTRODUCTION | 第14-19页 |
| 1.1 Aim of the present study | 第14页 |
| 1.2 Research background | 第14-16页 |
| 1.3 Research significance | 第16-17页 |
| 1.4 Research questions | 第17页 |
| 1.5 Structure of the thesis | 第17-19页 |
| CHAPTER TWO LITERATURE REVIEW | 第19-33页 |
| 2.1 Overview | 第19页 |
| 2.2 Language production | 第19-21页 |
| 2.3 The conceptual structure of event | 第21页 |
| 2.4 Motion events | 第21-27页 |
| 2.4.1 Definition of motion events | 第21-22页 |
| 2.4.2 Classification of motion events | 第22-23页 |
| 2.4.3 Typology of Chinese motion events: the third language type | 第23-26页 |
| 2.4.4 Encoding conceptual motion event structure in Chinese and in English | 第26-27页 |
| 2.5 Cross-linguistic differences of effects of motion event on language production | 第27-29页 |
| 2.6 Structural priming | 第29-31页 |
| 2.7 Comments on the previous studies | 第31-33页 |
| CHAPTER THREE THE PRESENT STUDY | 第33-43页 |
| 3.1 Research questions | 第33页 |
| 3.2 Methods of the present study | 第33-36页 |
| 3.3 Methods of data coding and analysis | 第36-40页 |
| 3.4 Research hypotheses | 第40-43页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR EXPERIMENT ONE | 第43-61页 |
| 4.1 Aim of experiment one | 第43页 |
| 4.2 Methodology | 第43-48页 |
| 4.2.1 Participants | 第43-44页 |
| 4.2.2 Research materials | 第44-47页 |
| 4.2.3 Procedure | 第47-48页 |
| 4.3 Data analysis and results | 第48-59页 |
| 4.3.1 Results from Message Planning stage | 第49-52页 |
| 4.3.2 Results at the interface of Message Planning and Linguistic Formulation | 第52-57页 |
| 4.3.3 Results from the stage of Linguistic Formulation | 第57-59页 |
| 4.4 Findings of experiment one | 第59-61页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE EXPERIMENT TWO | 第61-74页 |
| 5.1 Aim of experiment two | 第61页 |
| 5.2 Methodology | 第61-64页 |
| 5.2.1 Participants | 第62页 |
| 5.2.2 Research materials | 第62-63页 |
| 5.2.3 Procedure | 第63-64页 |
| 5.3 Data analysis and results | 第64-72页 |
| 5.3.1 Results from Message Planning stage | 第64-67页 |
| 5.3.2 Results at the interface of Message Planning and Linguistic Formulation | 第67-70页 |
| 5.3.3 Results from Linguistic Formulation stage | 第70-72页 |
| 5.4 Findings of experiment two | 第72-74页 |
| CHAPTER SIX GENERAL DISCUSSION | 第74-81页 |
| 6.1 Overview | 第74页 |
| 6.2 Findings of the two experiments | 第74-75页 |
| 6.3 Discussion of the role of event structure at Message Planning stage | 第75-76页 |
| 6.4 Discussion of the role of event structure at the interface of Message Planning andLinguistic Formulation stage | 第76-77页 |
| 6.5 Discussion of the role of event structure at Linguistic Formulation stage | 第77-78页 |
| 6.6 The role of conceptual structure in language production | 第78-81页 |
| CHAPTER SEVEN CONCLUSIONS | 第81-86页 |
| 7.1 Overview | 第81页 |
| 7.2 Major findings | 第81-82页 |
| 7.3 Implications, limitations and possible directions for further study | 第82-83页 |
| 7.4 Summary | 第83-86页 |
| REFERENCES | 第86-90页 |
| APPENDICES | 第90-93页 |
| Appendix A | 第90-92页 |
| Appendix B | 第92-93页 |
