声明
致谢
List of Abbreviations
Chapter One Introduction
1.1 Research Background
1.2 Purpose of the Study
1.3 Significance of the Study
1.4 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter Two Literature Review
2.1Overview on Literacy
2.1.1Current figures and conditions of illiterate speakers
2.1.2Previous research on literacy and language processing
2.2Researches on Structural Priming
2.2.1The definition and basic knowledge of structural priming
2.2.2Three paradigms of structural priming
2.2.3Theoretical background on structural priming
2.2.4Structural priming and syntactic representation
2.2.5Structural priming in special populations
2.3Summary of Literature Review
Chapter Three Methodology
3.1Overall Objectives
3.2 Participants
3.3 Stimuli
3.4 Procedure
3.5 Scoring
3.6Data Analysis
3.6.1 Instruments
3.6.2Statistical Treatment of the Data
3.7Summary of Methodology
Chapter Four Results
4.1Results of Experiment 1 with Verb-repetition
4.2Results of Experiment 2 with Verb-no-repetition
4.3Comparative Analysis of Experiments 1 and 2
4.4Summary of Results
Chapter Five Discussion
5.1The Priming Effect in Illiterate Speakers
5.2The Impact of Literacy on Lexical Boost Effect
5.3 The Nature of Syntactic Representation
Chapter Six Conclusions
6.1 Major Findings and Implications
6.2 Limitations of the Study
6.3 Suggestions for Further Research
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