| Acknowledgements | 第1-5页 |
| 摘要 | 第5-6页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第6-11页 |
| Chapter 1 Introduction | 第11-15页 |
| ·Research Background | 第11-13页 |
| ·Research Objectives and Significance | 第13页 |
| ·The Overall Structure of the Thesis | 第13-15页 |
| Chapter 2 Literature Review | 第15-31页 |
| ·Universal Grammar (UG) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA) | 第15-19页 |
| ·Logical problem in First Language Acquisition and the Proposal of UG | 第15-16页 |
| ·The logical problem in Second Language Acquisition | 第16-17页 |
| ·Three views concerning the accessibility to UG in second language acquisition | 第17-19页 |
| ·Models Proposed on the Impairment of Interlanguage Grammar | 第19-22页 |
| ·The Global Impairment Hypothesis | 第20-21页 |
| ·The Local Impairment Hypothesis | 第21页 |
| ·The Unimpaired Representation Hypothesis | 第21-22页 |
| ·An Overview of the Previous Studies | 第22-28页 |
| ·Johnson & Newport (1991) | 第22-24页 |
| ·Martohardjono (1993) | 第24-25页 |
| ·Hawkins and Chan (1997) | 第25-26页 |
| ·Alan Juffs (2005) | 第26-27页 |
| ·Hawkins and Hattori (2006) | 第27-28页 |
| ·A Summary of the Previous Studies | 第28-31页 |
| Chapter 3 Theoretical Framework | 第31-41页 |
| ·The Introduction of the Minimalist Program (MP) | 第31-34页 |
| ·Features and Functional Categories | 第32-33页 |
| ·Feature-checking Theory | 第33-34页 |
| ·Wh-movement and wh-in-situ | 第34-35页 |
| ·Wh-movement in English | 第35-36页 |
| ·Wh-movement in Embedded Questions | 第36-37页 |
| ·Constraint on Wh-movement | 第37-39页 |
| ·The study of strong and weak violation of subjacency | 第39页 |
| ·Wh-questions in Chinese | 第39-41页 |
| Chapter 4 Research Methodology | 第41-47页 |
| ·Research Questions and Hypotheses | 第41-42页 |
| ·Subjects | 第42-43页 |
| ·Instruments and Measurement | 第43-45页 |
| ·Data Collection and Analysis | 第45-47页 |
| Chapter 5 Results and Discussion | 第47-55页 |
| ·Performances of subjects on the syntax test | 第47-48页 |
| ·Performance on Ungrammatical Wh-questions with no Subject-auxiliary Inversion | 第48-49页 |
| ·Performance on Ungrammatical Wh-questions involving Subjacency violations | 第49-51页 |
| ·Performances on Subjacency Violation of Different Proficiency Groups | 第51-55页 |
| Chapter 6 Conclusion | 第55-59页 |
| ·Major Findings | 第55-56页 |
| ·Limitations of the present study and Prospects for Further Research | 第56-59页 |
| Bibliography | 第59-63页 |
| Appendix A Grammaticality Judgment (GJ) Task | 第63-65页 |
| Appendix B Questionnaire on the Acquisition of English Wh-questions | 第65-67页 |
| 攻读学位期间发表的学术论文目录 | 第67-68页 |