List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 General Introduction
1.1 Background of the research
1.2 The significance of the research
1.3 Motivation of the research
1.4 Organization of the book
Chapter 2 The Theoretical Issues
2.1 The syntax of Mandarin RCs
2.2 Accounts for the deficit in children with SLI
2.2.1 Representational Accounts
2.2.2 Processing accounts
2.2.3 Procedural Deficit Hypothesis
2.3 Research hypothesis
2.3.1 The edge feature underspecification hypothesis
2.3.2 Why the edge Features
2.3.3 Predictions of the hypothesis
2.4 Summary
Chapter 3 The Production of Relative Clauses
3.1 Previous studies on the production of head-initial RCs in TD children
3.2 Previous studies on the production of Mandarin RCs in TD children
3.3 Previous studies on the production of RCs in children with SLI
3.3.1 Impairment in syntactic movement
3.3.2 Impairment in thematic assignment
3.3.3 Impaired implicit learning mechanisms
3.3.4 The Animacy of the Relative Clause head
3.3.5 The passive object relative clause
3.4 Condition 1 of experiment 1:Reversible subject and object RCs
3.4.1 Method
3.4.2 Results
3.4.3 Discussion
3.5 Condition 2 of experiment 1: Reversible passive object R Cs
3.5.1 Research questions
3.5.2 Method
3.5.3 Results
3.5.4 Discussion
3.6 Condition 3 of experiment 1: Irreversible subject and object RCs
3.6.1 Research questions
3.6.2 Method
3.6.3 Results
3.6.4 Discussion
3.7 Experiment 2: Priming production task
3.7.1 Research questions
3.7.2 Method
3.7.3 Results
3.7.4 Discussion
3.8 Summary
Chapter 4 The Comprehension of Relative Clauses
4.1 Previous studies on the Relative Clause comprehension in TD children
4.2 Previous studies on the Relative Clause comprehension in children with SLI