| List of Abbreviations | 第1-5页 |
| List of Tables and Figures | 第5-7页 |
| Table of Contents | 第7-10页 |
| Abstract | 第10-12页 |
| 摘要 | 第12-14页 |
| Chapter One Introduction | 第14-18页 |
| ·Research Background | 第14-15页 |
| ·Purpose of the Study | 第15-16页 |
| ·Significance of the Study | 第16页 |
| ·Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第16-18页 |
| Chapter Two Literature Review | 第18-34页 |
| ·Introduction | 第18页 |
| ·The L2 Initial State | 第18-20页 |
| ·No Access | 第18页 |
| ·No Transfer/Full Access | 第18-19页 |
| ·Partial Transfer/Full Access | 第19页 |
| ·Full Transfer/Partial Access | 第19-20页 |
| ·Full Transfer/Full Access (FT/FA) | 第20页 |
| ·The Interlanguage Syntactic Impairment | 第20-22页 |
| ·The Impairment Hypothesis | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Unimpairment Hypothesis | 第21-22页 |
| ·Previous SLA on the English Articles Acquisition | 第22-29页 |
| ·Early Studies in SLA of English Articles | 第22-25页 |
| ·Recent Studies in SLA of English Articles | 第25-29页 |
| ·Research on English Articles Acquisition by Chinese Scholars | 第29-34页 |
| Chapter Three Theoretical Framework | 第34-43页 |
| ·The Minimalist Program and Functional Categories in SLA | 第34-36页 |
| ·The Nominal Mapping Parameter (NMP) | 第36-38页 |
| ·The Article Choice Parameter (ACP) | 第38-41页 |
| ·The Fluctuation Hypothesis (FH) | 第41-43页 |
| Chapter Four Research Methodology | 第43-47页 |
| ·Research Hypotheses | 第43页 |
| ·Subjects | 第43-44页 |
| ·Instruments and Tasks | 第44-45页 |
| ·Procedure | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter Five Results | 第47-71页 |
| ·Group Results | 第47-59页 |
| ·Article Use in Definite Conditions | 第47-53页 |
| ·Total Percentages of Articles Use | 第47-49页 |
| ·Comparison between Chinese Groups and the Native Controls | 第49-51页 |
| ·Comparison between Chinese Intermediate Group and Advanced Group | 第51页 |
| ·Within-group Comparisons between the Singular, Plural and Mass Contexts | 第51-53页 |
| ·Article Use in Indefinite Conditions | 第53-59页 |
| ·Total Percentages of Articles Use | 第53-55页 |
| ·Comparison between Chinese Groups and the Native Controls | 第55-56页 |
| ·Comparison between Chinese Intermediate Group and Advanced Group | 第56-57页 |
| ·Within-group Comparisons between the Singular, Plural and Mass Contexts | 第57-59页 |
| ·Individual Results | 第59-63页 |
| ·Use of the | 第59-61页 |
| ·Use of the in Definite Singular Contexts | 第59-60页 |
| ·Use of the in Definite Plural Contexts | 第60页 |
| ·Use of the in Definite Mass Contexts | 第60-61页 |
| ·Use of a and | 第61-63页 |
| ·Use of a in Indefinite Singular Contexts | 第61-62页 |
| ·Use of in Indefinite Plural Contexts | 第62页 |
| ·Use of in Indefinite Mass Contexts | 第62-63页 |
| ·Fluctuation between the Two Settings of ACP | 第63-71页 |
| ·Group Results of the Article Use | 第65-66页 |
| ·Effects of Definiteness and Specificity | 第66-71页 |
| Chapter Six Discussions | 第71-81页 |
| ·Discussion of Hypothesis 1 | 第71-72页 |
| ·Discussion of Hypothesis 2 | 第72-77页 |
| ·Discussion of Hypothesis 3 | 第77-81页 |
| Chapter Seven Conclusions | 第81-86页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第81-83页 |
| ·Implications | 第83-84页 |
| ·Implications for SLA Theory | 第83页 |
| ·Implications for English Teaching and Learning | 第83-84页 |
| ·Limitations and Suggestions | 第84-86页 |
| Bibliography | 第86-93页 |
| Appendixes | 第93-104页 |
| AppendixⅠ Descriptions of Individual Participants | 第93-95页 |
| AppendixⅡ Forced Choice Elicitation Task Master Version | 第95-104页 |
| Acknowledgements | 第104-105页 |
| Publications | 第105页 |
