Language Processing in Chinese (eBook)

Hsuan Chih Chen, Ovid J.L. Tzeng (Herausgeber)

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1992 | 1. Auflage
391 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-086744-1 (ISBN)

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The aim of this book is to integrate the most recent research in the cognitive aspects of the Chinese language into a single academic reference for those interested in language processing and related fields. Chinese is perhaps the most widely used language in the world. In addition to its popularity, many specific features make it unique in relation to many Indo-European languages. Chinese words generally do not have inflections indicating grammatical attributes such as number, gender and case for nouns, or tense and aspect for verbs. Chinese words have no inherently marked lexical categories. Unlike the alphabetic symbols common to Indo-European languages, the Chinese writing system is logographic in nature. Chinese script/speech relationship is highly opaque, with the Chinese characters representing lexical morphemes in contrast to alphabetic symbols which represent phonemes. This volume presents research findings indispensable to the general understanding of human language processing about how people process the Chinese language.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Language Processing in Chinese 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 12
Preface 6
Acknowledgments 8
List of Contributors 10
Part I: Character Recognition and Naming 14
Chapter 1. From Unit to Gestalt: Perceptual Dynamics in Recognizing Chinese Characters 16
Chapter 2. Graphemic, Phonological, and Semantic Activation Processes during the Recognition of Chinese Characters 50
Chapter 3. Lexical Access in Chinese: Evidence from Automatic Activation of Phonological Information 80
Chapter 4. Recognition Processes in Character Naming 106
Part II: Lexical Structure and Word Processing 122
Chapter 5. Psychological Reality of the Word in Chinese 124
Chapter 6. Decomposed Storage in the Chinese Lexicon 144
Chapter 7. Judging Homophony in Chinese: The Influence of Tones 164
Part III: Sentence and Text Comprehension 186
Chapter 8. Reading Comprehension in Chinese: Implications from Character Reading Times 188
Chapter 9. Cues as Functional Constraints on Sentence Processing in Chinese 220
Part IV: Language Acquisition 248
Chapter 10. Language Development in Chinese Children 250
Chapter 11. The Acquisition of Chinese Syntax 290
Chapter 12. Theoretical Implications of the Principles and Parameters Model for Language Acquisition in Chinese 326
Part V: Neuropsychological and Methodological Issues 360
Chapter 13. Deep and Surface Dyslexia in Chinese 362
Chapter 14. Cross-Linguistic Research on Language and Cognition: Methodological Challenges 380
Author Index 396
Subject Index 404

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.5.1992
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Test in der Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
• ISBN-10: 0-08-086744-8 / 0080867448
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-086744-1 / 9780080867441