Iage a Comparative Study of Wh-questions in English and Chinese

摘要

This paper presents a comparative study of English and Chinese wh-questions and aims at providing explanations of distinctions between English and Chinese wh-questions.The different feature strength of the position C causes the different sentence pattern of Chinese and English wh-questions and the aim is to meet the requirement of feature-checking.The overt whmovement is constrained by some principles.Then Do Chinese learners of English also have this principle in their mind? Through the experiment,the study compared the rates of accuracy of the Chinese group and the native controls.