| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第1-9页 |
| Chapter 2 Cognitive Psychology-The Theoretical Foundation for the Study of Sentence Comprehension | 第9-19页 |
| ·Roots of Cognitive Psychology | 第9-12页 |
| ·Experimental Psychology | 第10-11页 |
| ·Artificial Intelligence | 第11-12页 |
| ·The Approaches of Cognitive Psychology | 第12-14页 |
| ·The Issue of Modularity vs. Interactiveness | 第14-17页 |
| ·Transformational Grammar | 第17-19页 |
| Chapter 3 The Issue of Ambiguity | 第19-31页 |
| ·A General Discussion | 第19-20页 |
| ·The Two Main Types of Ambiguity | 第20-31页 |
| ·Lexical Ambiguity | 第20-25页 |
| ·Semantic Lexical Ambiguity | 第20-23页 |
| ·Syntactic Lexical Ambiguity | 第23-25页 |
| ·Structural Ambiguity | 第25-31页 |
| ·Deep Structure Ambiguity | 第27-28页 |
| ·Surface Structure Ambiguity | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter 4 Attachment Ambiguity and Its Resolution | 第31-42页 |
| ·Typical Examples of Attachment Ambiguity | 第31-38页 |
| ·Studies of Attachment Ambiguity | 第38-42页 |
| Chapter 5 Implications of Attachment Ambiguity Resolution for Teaching | 第42-52页 |
| ·Learning Strategies | 第42-44页 |
| ·Implications of Attachment Ambiguity Resolution for Teaching | 第44-52页 |
| ·Implications of Attachment Ambiguity Resolution | 第44-48页 |
| ·Empirical Evidence | 第48-52页 |
| Study 1: the role of linguistic context in Chinese students' understanding of English | 第49-50页 |
| Study 2: the role of prosody and intonation in Chinese students' understanding of English | 第50-52页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第52-53页 |
| References | 第53-58页 |