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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 under specification 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£º Reversible subject and object RCs
3£®4£®1 Method
3£®4£®2 Results
3£®4£®3 Discussion
3£®5 Condition 2 of experiment 1£º Reversible passive object RCs
3£®5£®1 Research questions
3£®5£®2 Method
3£®5£®3 Results
3£®5£®4 Discussion
3£®6 Condition 3 of experiment 1£º 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£º Priming production task
3£®7£®1 Research questions
3£®7£®2 Method
3£®7£®3 Results
3£®7£®4 Discussion
3£®8 Summary
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Chapter 4 The Comprehension of Relative Clauses
Chapter 5 The Repetition of Relative Clauses
Chapter 6 General Discussion

Conclusion
References
Appendices
Acknowledgments