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This paper aims to consider the shallow structure hypothesis through empirical findings. Based on their work on some syntactic domains(syntactic ambiguity and syntactic dependency), Clahsen and Felser propose the shallow structure hypothesis that the real-time sentence processing of non-native learners is qualitatively different from that of native speakers. It means that non-native learners compute shallower and less detailed syntactic representations than native speakers do during sentence comprehension. To investigate the validity of hypothesis the results of their long distance wh-dependency study, which is most closely associated with the hypothesis, are discussed in the paper. Even though the hypothesis has much effect on the field of second language acquisition, there exists a disparity between the hypothesis and empirical evidence.