| Abstract | 第1-7页 |
| 摘要 | 第7-15页 |
| List of Tables | 第15-16页 |
| List of Figures | 第16-18页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第18-20页 |
| Chapter One Introducti | 第20-25页 |
| ·Motivation of the | 第20-22页 |
| ·The importance of relative clauses | 第20-21页 |
| ·Universal processing preference and Current gaps | 第21-22页 |
| ·Aims and research questions of the study | 第22-23页 |
| ·Structure of the dissertation | 第23-25页 |
| Chapter Two Typology of relative clause | 第25-39页 |
| ·Types of relative clauses | 第25-28页 |
| ·External-headed RCs vs Internal-headed RCs vs Correlative RCs | 第26页 |
| ·Postnominal / head-initial RCs vs Prenominal / head-final RCs | 第26-27页 |
| ·Subject-extracted RCs vs Object-extracted RCs | 第27页 |
| ·Subject-modifying vs Object-modifying RCs | 第27-28页 |
| ·Word order type and RC type | 第28-30页 |
| ·Typological characteristics of English relative clauses | 第30-33页 |
| ·Restrictive vs non-restrictive clauses in English | 第31-32页 |
| ·Derivation of English RCs | 第32-33页 |
| ·Typological characteristics of Chinese relative clauses | 第33-39页 |
| ·Typological characteristics of Chinese | 第33-36页 |
| ·Morphological structure | 第33页 |
| ·Vague clause boundaries | 第33页 |
| ·Canonical word order | 第33-34页 |
| ·Pro-drop in Chinese | 第34-35页 |
| ·Topicalization in Chinese | 第35-36页 |
| ·The Uniqueness of Chinese RC | 第36-39页 |
| ·The position of head noun and restricting clause | 第36-37页 |
| ·Grammatical roles of “DE” | 第37-39页 |
| Chapter Three Sentence Processing Mode | 第39-60页 |
| ·Universal subject preference | 第39-40页 |
| ·Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy | 第39页 |
| ·Experience | 第39-40页 |
| ·Working memory accounts (Gibson 1998, 2000) | 第40-47页 |
| ·Storage Resources | 第41-43页 |
| ·Storage of incomplete head dependencies | 第41-42页 |
| ·Prediction about English RC processing | 第42页 |
| ·Prediction about Chinese RC processing | 第42-43页 |
| ·Integration Cost | 第43-45页 |
| ·Linear distance between filler and gap | 第43页 |
| ·Prediction about English RC processing | 第43-44页 |
| ·Prediction about Chinese RC processing | 第44-45页 |
| ·A brief comment: a bridge from structural theories to processing theories | 第45-47页 |
| ·Structure-based theories | 第47-53页 |
| ·Filler-Gap Domain (FGD) (Hawkins 1999, 2004) | 第47-51页 |
| ·Structural distance between filler and subcategorizer | 第47-49页 |
| ·Prediction about English RC processing | 第49-50页 |
| ·Prediction about Chinese RC Processing made by Fill-Gap Domain | 第50-51页 |
| ·Phrase-Structural Distance Hypothesis | 第51-53页 |
| ·Hierarchy distance between filler and gap | 第51-52页 |
| ·Prediction about English RC processing | 第52页 |
| ·Prediction about Chinese RC processing | 第52-53页 |
| ·Word order theory | 第53-54页 |
| ·Canonical word order vs non-canonical word order | 第53页 |
| ·Prediction about the English RC processing | 第53-54页 |
| ·Prediction about Chinese RC processing | 第54页 |
| ·Pragmatic functional perspective shift | 第54-58页 |
| ·Subject as a default perspective of readers | 第55页 |
| ·Prediction about English RC processing | 第55-56页 |
| ·Prediction about Chinese RC processing | 第56-58页 |
| ·An evaluation of predictions about English and Chinese RC processing | 第58-60页 |
| Chapter Four Previous studies and findings | 第60-87页 |
| ·Processing relative clauses | 第60-63页 |
| ·Basic observations | 第60-61页 |
| ·Neurophysiological evidence | 第61-62页 |
| ·Neuroanatomical evidence | 第62-63页 |
| ·Consistent results with universality from English RC processing | 第63-70页 |
| ·General remarks | 第63页 |
| ·Eye-movement monitor | 第63-64页 |
| ·Self-paced reading | 第64-66页 |
| ·Event-related potential studies | 第66-67页 |
| ·Brain imaging studies using fMRI and PET | 第67-70页 |
| ·Lesion studies: Aphasia | 第70页 |
| ·Mixed results on Chinese RC processing | 第70-87页 |
| ·Self-paced reading | 第70-80页 |
| ·Hsiao & Gibson (2003) – supporting cross-linguistic processing preference | 第70-75页 |
| ·Lin & Bever (2006) – supporting universal processing preference | 第75-77页 |
| ·Lin & Garnsey – the effect of head noun’s existence and animacy cues | 第77-80页 |
| ·A maze task | 第80-83页 |
| ·Corpora studies –supporting universal processing preference | 第83-86页 |
| ·Event-related potential studies | 第86-87页 |
| Chapter Five An ERP experiment on Chinese RC processi | 第87-147页 |
| ·ERP methodology | 第87-99页 |
| ·An overview of ERP | 第87-88页 |
| ·Geodesic EEG System | 第88-90页 |
| ·Software-relating ERP experiments | 第90-91页 |
| ·ERP language-related components | 第91-99页 |
| ·N400 | 第91-94页 |
| ·P600 | 第94-98页 |
| ·Early left anterior negativity (ELAN) | 第98-99页 |
| ·The ERP experiment design on Chinese relative clause processing | 第99-106页 |
| ·Aims | 第99页 |
| ·Participants | 第99-100页 |
| ·Materials and task | 第100-102页 |
| ·Design | 第102页 |
| ·Procedure | 第102页 |
| ·Electrophysiological recordings and preprocessing | 第102-103页 |
| ·Data analysis | 第103-106页 |
| ·Results | 第106-132页 |
| ·Behavioral results | 第106页 |
| ·Spatial Aspects of the ERP data | 第106-108页 |
| ·Statistical results | 第108-132页 |
| ·Testing prior results of asymmetry processing | 第108-112页 |
| ·Introducing of topicalization effect | 第112-117页 |
| ·Minimal pair analysis | 第117-132页 |
| ·Subject-modifying RCs | 第117-122页 |
| ·Object-modifying RCs | 第122-127页 |
| ·Topicalized RCs | 第127-132页 |
| ·Discussions | 第132-144页 |
| ·Testing prior results of processing asymmetry | 第133-135页 |
| ·Procedure of Chinese RC processing | 第133-135页 |
| ·Object relatives preference in Chinese | 第135页 |
| ·Involvement of topicalized sentences | 第135-137页 |
| ·Procedure of relative clause processing | 第135-137页 |
| ·Object relative preference in Chinese | 第137页 |
| ·Minimal pair analysis | 第137-140页 |
| ·Processing asymmetry in subject-modifying RCs | 第137-138页 |
| ·Processing asymmetry in object-modifying RCs | 第138-139页 |
| ·Processing asymmetry in topicalized RCs | 第139-140页 |
| ·An integration results from minimal pair analysis | 第140页 |
| ·Evaluation of sentence processing models | 第140-144页 |
| ·Evaluation of Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy | 第140-141页 |
| ·Evaluation of Frequency | 第141页 |
| ·Evaluation of Storage Cost | 第141-142页 |
| ·Evaluation of Integration Cost | 第142页 |
| ·Evaluation of Filler-Gap Domain | 第142-143页 |
| ·Evaluation of Phrase-Structural Distance Hypothesis | 第143页 |
| ·Evaluation of Canonical Word Order Hypothesis | 第143页 |
| ·Evaluation of Perspective Shift theory | 第143-144页 |
| ·Conclusions | 第144-147页 |
| ·Non-applicability of universal subject preference to Chinese | 第144页 |
| ·General phenomenon of object relatives preference in Chinese | 第144页 |
| ·Non-existence of a universal processing model | 第144-145页 |
| ·Other findings contributing to a comprehensive model | 第145-147页 |
| ·Function of canonical word order in RCs | 第145-146页 |
| ·An unmarked RC form in English and Chinese | 第146-147页 |
| Chapter Six Concluding remark | 第147-150页 |
| ·General findings | 第147-148页 |
| ·Significance of the study | 第148页 |
| ·Limitations of the study | 第148-149页 |
| ·Suggestions for future research | 第149-150页 |
| References | 第150-166页 |
| Appendix: Experimental Materials | 第166-173页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 第173-175页 |
| 在学期间发表的论文及著作情况 | 第175页 |
