声明
摘要
Abstract
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
List of Tables and Figures
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research Backgrounds
1.2 Research Significance
1.3 General Organization of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1 A Brief Introduction to ERPs
2.1.1 Event-related Potentials(ERPs)
2.1.2 Related ERP Components in the Current Study
2.1.3 S-V Number Agreement
2.2 Feature Tracking Theory
2.3 ERPs Studies on S-V Number Agreement
2.3.1 ERPs Studies on S-V Number Agreement Abroad
2.3.2 ERPs Studies on S-V Number Agreement at Home
2.4 Summary
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1 Research Questions
3.2 Research Design
3.2.1 Participants
3.2.2 Materials
3.2.3 Procedure
3.3 Data Recording and Analyses
3.3.1 Behavioral Data
3.3.2 EEG Recording and Data Analysis
Chapter Four Results and Discussion
4.1 Results
4.1.1 Behavioral Data
4.1.2 Electrophysiological Data from S-V Number Violation
4.1.3 Electrophysiological Data from Comparison between Different Sentence Types
4.2 Discussion
4.2.1 Effects of Number
4.2.2 Effects of Proficiency
4.3 Summary
Chapter Five Conclusions
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations and Suggestions for Future Study
References
Appendix
Acknowledgments