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Chapter 1 Introduction
1£®1 Background
1£®1£®1 L2 Reading and Research on L2 Reading
1£®1£®2 Subvocalization and the Implicit Prosody
1£®1£®3 Cross-linguistic Difference in Relative Clause Attachment
1£®2 Problem Statement
1£®3 Research Questions
1£®4 Overview of Chapters

Chapter 2 Literature Review
2£®1 Models and Research on L2 Reading
2£®1£®1 Reading Models
2£®1£®2 L2 Reading£º A Language Problem or a Reading Problem?
2£®1£®3 Research on the Factors Affecting L2 Reading
2£®1£®4 Summary
2£®2 Models and Research on L2 Ambiguity Resolution
2£®2£®1 Models on Sentence Processing in L1 and L2
2£®2£®2 Research on L2 Sentence Processing
2£®2£®3 Summary
2£®3 Spoken Prosody and Prosody Acquisition
2£®3£®1 Spoken Prosody and Language Processing
2£®3£®2 English Prosody vs Mandarin Prosody
2£®3£®3 Prosody Acquisition and Transfer
2£®3£®4 Summary
2£®4 Research on the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis
2£®4£®1 Implicit Prosody Hypothesis
2£®4£®2 Research on the Implicit Prosody Hypothesis
2£®4£®3 Summary
2£®5 Hypotheses of the Research

Chapter 3 Methodology
3£®1 Design
3£®2 Subjects
3£®3 Materials
3£®3£®1 Materials Used in Experiment 1
3£®3£®2 Materials Used in Experiment 2
3£®4 Procedures
3£®5 Data Processing
3£®5£®1 Processing the Trajectories
3£®5£®2 Processing the Recordings

Chapter 4 Analysis of RC Attachment Preference
4£®1 Experiment 1£º RC Attachment Preference
4£®1£®1 RC Attachment in No-bias Sentences
4£®1£®2 RC Attachment in NP1/NP2-bias Sentences
4£®1£®3 Summary
4£®2 Experiment 2£º the Article System and Ambiguity Resolution
4£®2£®1 A Pilot Study
4£®2£®2 RC Attachment in Ambiguous Sentences
4£®2£®3 Summary

Chapter 5 Analysis of the Overt Prosody
5£®1 Prosodic Phrasing
5£®1£®1 The Prosodic Phrasing in No-bias Sentences
5£®1£®2 The Prosodic Phrasing in NP1/NP2-bias Sentences
5£®1£®3 Summary
5£®2 Accent Placement
5£®2£®1 Accent Placement in No-bias Sentences
5£®2£®2 Accent Placement in NP1/NP2-bias Sentences
5£®2£®3 Summary

Chapter 6 Discussions and Conclusion
6£®1 Main Findings
6£®1£®1 RC Attachment Resolution by Chinese EFL Learners
6£®1£®2 The Overt Prosody and Its Correlation with Ambiguity Resolution
6£®1£®3 The Implicit Prosody in L2 Sentence Processing
6£®2 Limitations and Recommendations for Future Research
6£®3 Conclusion
References
Appendices