This page intentionally left blank TheHandbookofEastAsianPsycholinguistics Alargebodyofknowledgehasaccumulatedinrecentyearsonthecognitive processesandbrainmechanismsunderlyinglanguage.Muchofthisknowl- edgehascomefromstudiesofIndo-Europeanlanguages,inparticularEnglish. Chinese,spokenbyone-fifthoftheworld’spopulation,differssignificantly frommostIndo-Europeanlanguagesinitsgrammar,itslexicon,anditswrit- ten and spoken forms – features which have profound implications for the learning,representation,andprocessingoflanguage.Thishandbook,thefirst inathree-volumesetonEastAsianpsycholinguistics,presentsastate-of-the- art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Chinese. With contributions by over fifty leading scholars, it covers topics in first and second language acquisition,languageprocessingandreading,languagedisordersinchildren andadults,andtherelationshipsbetweenlanguage,brain,culture,andcogni- tion.ItwillbeinvaluabletoallscholarsandstudentsinterestedintheChinese language,aswellascognitivepsychologists,linguists,andneuroscientists. ping liisProfessorofPsychologyattheUniversityofRichmond.Hismain researchinterestsareintheareasofpsycholinguisticsandcognitivescience. Hespecializesincrosslinguisticstudiesoflanguageacquisition,bilinguallan- guageprocessing,andneuralnetworkmodelingofmonolingualandbilingual lexicaldevelopment. li hai tan is Associate Professor in the Department of Linguistics and DirectoroftheStateKeyLaboratoryofBrainandCognitiveSciencesatthe UniversityofHongKong.Hismainresearchinterestinvolvesusingneuro- imagingandcognitiveapproachestoinvestigateneuroanatomicalandcogni- tivemechanismsunderlyinglanguageprocessing.Hespecializesincognitive neuroscienceresearchonChinesecharacteridentification. elizabeth bates (1947–2003)wasProfessorofPsychologyandCog- nitiveScienceattheUniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego.Hermainresearch interestsincludedlanguageandcognitivedevelopment,cognitivescience,and cognitiveneuroscience.Shespecializedinlexicalandgrammaticalacquisi- tion,thecrosslinguisticstudiesofsentenceprocessing,andbrainorganization forlanguageinchildrenandadults. ovid j. l. tzeng isVicePresidentoftheAcademiaSinica,Taiwan.His main research interests include language processing, neuropsychology, and cognitiveneuroscience.HespecializesinreadingandperceptioninChinese, thecrosslinguisticstudiesofaphasia,andneuralcorrelatesoflanguage. The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics Volume 1: Chinese Editedby PingLi UniversityofRichmond LiHaiTan UniversityofHongKong ElizabethBates UniversityofCalifornia,SanDiego OvidJ.L.Tzeng AcademiaSinica,Taiwan GeneralEditor: PingLi cambridge university press Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,CambridgeCB22RU,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521833332 (cid:1)C CambridgeUniversityPress2006 Thisbookisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. 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Contents Listoffigures page ix Notesoncontributors xii Preface xix Introduction:newfrontiersinChinesepsycholinguistics 1 ping li, li hai tan, elizabeth bates, and ovid j. l. tzeng PartI: Languageacquisition 1 ActionsandresultsintheacquisitionofCantoneseverbs 13 sik lee cheung and eve v. clark 2 Chinesechildren’sknowledgeoftheBindingPrinciples 23 yu-chin chien and barbara lust 3 Chineseclassifiers:theiruseandacquisition 39 mary s. erbaugh 4 ChildlanguageacquisitionoftemporalityinMandarin Chinese 52 chiung-chih huang 5 SecondlanguageacquisitionbynativeChinesespeakers 61 gisela jia 6 Makingexplicitchildren’simplicitepilanguageinlearning toreadChinese 70 che kan leong 7 EmergentliteracyskillsinChinese 81 catherine mcbride-chang and yiping zhong 8 Basicsyntacticcategoriesinearlylanguagedevelopment 90 rushen shi v vi Contents 9 Growthoforthography-phonologyknowledgeinthe Chinesewritingsystem 103 hua shu and ningning wu 10 Interactionofbiologicalandenvironmentalfactorsin phonologicallearning 114 stephanie stokes 11 TheimportanceofverbsinChinese 124 twila tardif 12 Grammaracquisitionviaparametersetting 136 charles yang 13 EarlybilingualacquisitionintheChinesecontext 148 virginia yip PartII: Languageprocessing 14 Word-formencodinginChinesespeechproduction 165 jenn-yeu chen and gary s. dell 15 Effectsofsemanticradicalconsistencyandcombinability onChinesecharacterprocessing 175 may jane chen, brendan s. weekes, dan-ling peng, and qin lei 16 EyemovementinChinesereading:basicprocessesand crosslinguisticdifferences 187 gary feng 17 TheChinesecharacterinpsycholinguisticresearch:form, structure,andthereader 195 douglas n. honorof and laurie feldman 18 PerceptionandproductionofMandarinChinesetones 209 allard jongman, yue wang, corinne b. moore, and joan a. sereno 19 Phonologicalmediationinvisualwordrecognitionin EnglishandChinese 218 in-mao liu, jei-tun wu, iue-ruey sue, and sau-chin chen 20 ReadingChinesecharacters:orthography,phonology, meaning,andtheLexicalConstituencyModel 225 charles a. perfetti and ying liu Contents vii 21 ProcessingofcharactersbynativeChinesereaders 237 marcus taft 22 L2acquisitionandprocessingofMandarintones 250 yue wang, joan a. sereno, and allard jongman 23 ThecomprehensionofcoreferenceinChinesediscourse 257 chin lung yang, peter c. gordon, and randall hendrick 24 LexicalambiguityresolutioninChinesesentence processing 268 yaxu zhang, ningning wu, and michael yip PartIII: Languageandthebrain 25 Therelationshipbetweenlanguageandcognition 281 terry kit-fong au 26 Languageprocessinginbilingualsasrevealedbyfunctional imaging:acontemporarysynthesis 287 michael w. l. chee 27 SpecificlanguageimpairmentinChinese 296 paul fletcher, stephanie stokes, and anita m.-y. wong 28 BrainmappingofChinesespeechprosody 308 jackson t. gandour 29 Modelinglanguageacquisitionandrepresentation: connectionistnetworks 320 ping li 30 ThemanifestationofaphasiasyndromesinChinese 330 jerome l. packard 31 NamingofChinesephonograms:fromcognitivescienceto cognitiveneuroscience 346 dan-ling peng and hua jiang 32 HowthebrainreadstheChineselanguage:recent neuroimagingfindings 358 li hai tan and wai ting siok viii Contents Epilogue:atributetoElizabethBates 372 References 374 Nameindex 440 Subjectindex 452