The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics

Spoken by one-fifth of the world's population, Chinese differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, lexicon, and written and spoken forms--features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and processing of language. The first in a three-volume set on East Asian psycholinguistics, this handbook includes 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.

A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes and mechanisms underlying language. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of Indo-European languages, particularly English. This handbook, the first in a three-volume set on East Asian psycholinguistics, presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Chinese. Spoken by one-fifth of the world's population, Chinese differs significantly from 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.