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Chapter One : Introduction1.1 Motivation of the study1.1.1 The importance of studying relative clauses1.1.2 Universal processing preference and Current gaps1.2 Aims and research questions of the study1.3 Structure of the book Chapter Two: Typology of relative clauses2.1 Types of relative clauses2.1.1 External-headed RCs vs.Internal-headed RCs vs.CorrelativeRCs2.1.2 Postnominal/head-initial RCs vs.Prenominal/head- final RCs2.1.3 Subject-extracted RCs vs.Object-extracted RCs2.1.4 Subject-modifying RCs vs.Object-modifying RCs2.2 Word order type and RC type2.3 Typological characteristics of English relative clauses2.3.1 Restrictive vs.nonrestrictive clauses in English2.3.2 Derivation of English RCs2.4 Typological characteristics of Chinese relative clauses2.4.1 Typological characteristics of Chinese2.4.2 The Uniqueness of Chinese RCsChapter Three: Sentence Processing Models3.1 Universal subject preference 3.1.1 Noun Phrase Accessibility Hierarchy3.1.2 Experience/Frequency-based accounts3.2 Working memory accounts (Gibson, 1998; 2000)3.2.1 Storage Resources3.2.2 Integration Cost3.2.3 A brief comment: a bridge connecting structural theories and processing theories3.3 Structure-based theories3.3.1 Filler-Gap Domain ( FGD) ( Hawkins, 1999 ; 2004 ) 3.3.2 Phrase-Structural Distance Hypothesis (O'Grady, 1997 )3.4 Word order theory3.4.1 Canonical word order vs.non-canonical word order3.4.2 Prediction about the English RC processing3.4.3 Prediction about Chinese RC processing3.5 Pragmatic functional perspective shift3.5.1 Subject as a default perspective of readers3.5.2 Prediction about English RC processing {3.5.3 Prediction about Chinese RC processing3.6 An evaluation of predictions about English and Chines RC processingChapter Four: Previous studies and findings4.1 Processing relative clauses4.1.1 Basic observations4.1.2 Neurophysiological evidence4.1.3 Neuroanatomical evidence4.2 Consistent results of universality from English RC processing4.2.1 General remarks4.2.2 Eye-movement monitor4.2.3 Self-paced reading4.2.4 Event-related potential studies4.2.5 Brain imaging studies using fMRI and PET4.2.6 Lesion studies: Aphasia4.3 Mixed results from Chinese RC processing4.3.1 Self-paced reading4.3.2 A maze task-mixed results¡­¡­ Chapter Five: An ERP experiment on Chinese RC ProcessingChapter Six: Concluding remarksReferencesAppendix: Experimental Materialsºó¼Ç