The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics

by Li, Ping; Tan, Li Hai; Bates, Elizabeth; Tzeng, Ovid J. L.

• ISBN13: 9781107405813
• ISBN10: 1107405815
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-07-26
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

A large body of knowledge has accumulated on the cognitive processes and brain mechanisms underlying language. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. Chinese, spoken by one-fifth of the world's population, differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, its lexicon, and its written and spoken forms - features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and processing of language. This handbook, first published in 2006 as the first in a three-volume set on East Asian psycholinguistics, presents a discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Chinese. With contributions by over fifty leading scholars, it covers topics in first- and second-language acquisition, language processing and reading, language disorders in children and adults, and the relationships between language, brain, culture, and cognition. It will be invaluable to all scholars and students interested in the Chinese language, as well as cognitive psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists.

Table of Contents

Language Acquisition

Actions and results in the acquisition of Cantonese verbs

Chinese children's knowledge of binding principles

Chinese classifiers: their use and acquisition

Child language acquisition of temporality in Mandarin Chinese

Second language acquisition by native Chinese speakers

Making explicit children's implicit epilanguage in learning to read Chinese

Emergent literacy skills in Chinese

Basic syntactic categories in early language development

Growth of orthography-phonology knowledge in the Chinese writing system

Interaction of biological and environmental factors in phonological learning

The importance of verbs in Chinese

Grammar acquisition via parameter setting

Early bilingual acquisition in the Chinese context

Language Processing

Word form encoding in Chinese speech production

Effects of semantic radical consistency and combinability on the Chinese character processing

Eye movement in Chinese reading: basic processes and cross-linguistic differences

The Chinese character in psycholinguistic research: form, structure and the reader

Perception and production of Chinese tones

Phonological mediation in visual word recognition in English and Chinese

Reading Chinese characters: orthography, phonology, meaning and the textual constituency model

Processing of characters by native Chinese readers

L2 acquisition and the processing of Mandarin tones

The comprehension of coreference in Chinese discourse

Lexical ambiguity resolution in Chinese sentence processing

Language and the Brain

The relationship between language and cognition Terry

Language processing in bilinguals as revealed by functional imaging: a contemporary synthesis

Specific language impairment in Chinese

Brain mapping of Chinese speech prosody

Modelling language acquisition and representation in connectionist networks

The manifestation of aphasia syndromes in Chinese

Naming of Chinese phonograms: from cognitive science to cognitive neuroscience

How the brain reads the Chinese language: recent neuroimaging findings

Epilogue: A tribute to Elizabeth Bates

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