| Acknowledgements | 第1-7页 |
| Abstract in Chinese | 第7-8页 |
| Abstract in English | 第8-9页 |
| Preface in Chinese | 第9-15页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第15-19页 |
| ·Research Background and Significance of the Study | 第15-18页 |
| ·The Structure of the Thesis | 第18-19页 |
| Chapter 2 Linguistic Background | 第19-27页 |
| ·Wh-movement and Wh-in-situ | 第19页 |
| ·Wh-movement in English | 第19-27页 |
| ·Wh-movement in Independent and Embedded Questions | 第19-21页 |
| ·Constraints on English wh-movement | 第21-27页 |
| ·Subjacency | 第21-24页 |
| ·ECP (Empty Category Principle) | 第24-27页 |
| Chapter 3 Literature Review | 第27-40页 |
| ·Universal Grammar (UG) and First Langauge Acquisition | 第27-30页 |
| ·The Poverty of the Stimulus in First Langauge Acquisition: the Proposal of UG | 第27-28页 |
| ·Principles—and—Parameters Model of UG | 第28-30页 |
| ·Accessibility of UG in Second Language Acquisition (SLA) | 第30-32页 |
| ·UG-based SLA Studies: Two Approaches | 第32-33页 |
| ·Studies on the Acquisition of Constraints on English wh-movement in SLA | 第33-40页 |
| ·Overview | 第33-34页 |
| ·Early Studies | 第34-37页 |
| ·More Advanced Studies | 第37-40页 |
| Chapter 4 Methodology | 第40-47页 |
| ·Research Design | 第40页 |
| ·Subjects | 第40-41页 |
| ·Instruments | 第41-45页 |
| ·Grammaticality Judgment Task | 第41-43页 |
| ·Reading Comprehension Task | 第43-45页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter 5 Results and Discussions | 第47-65页 |
| ·Results of the Test for Subjacency | 第47-57页 |
| ·Performance on Control Sentences | 第47页 |
| ·Overall Performance and Chance | 第47-49页 |
| ·Treatment of Different Constructions Violating Subjacency | 第49-57页 |
| ·Relative Clause Construction vs. Wh-island Construction | 第49-51页 |
| ·Relative Clause Construction vs. Appositive Clause Construction | 第51-53页 |
| ·Sensitivity to Subject-island | 第53-55页 |
| ·Similar Sensitivity Pattern | 第55-57页 |
| ·Results of the Test for ECP | 第57-65页 |
| ·Long-Distance Wh-movement | 第57-60页 |
| ·Wh-questions Involving Wh-island | 第60-63页 |
| ·Wh-argument vs. Wh-adjunct | 第63-65页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusions | 第65-69页 |
| ·The Accessibility of UG in SLA | 第65-67页 |
| ·Limitations of the Study and Issues for Further Research | 第67-69页 |
| References | 第69-73页 |
| Appendix Ⅰ. Grammaticality Judgment Task | 第73-75页 |
| Appendix Ⅱ. Reading Comprehension Task | 第75-76页 |
