Cambridge University Press is due to release an interesting-sounding title in April 2006: The Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics: Volume 1, Chinese. The editors are Ping Li of the University of Richmond, Virginia; Elizabeth Bates, of the University of California, San Diego; Li Hai Tan of the University of Hong Kong; and Ovid Tzeng, of National Yangming University, Taipei.
A second volume released at the same time will cover Japanese.
Here are the contents for the volume on Chinese:
- Language Acquisition:
- “Actions and results in the acquisition of Cantonese verbs” — Sik Lee Cheung and Eve V. Clark;
- “Chinese children’s knowledge of binding principles” — Yu-Chin Chien and Barbara Lust;
- “Chinese classifiers: their use and acquisition” — Mary Erbaugh;
- “Child language acquisition of temporality in Mandarin Chinese” — Chiung-chih Huang;
- “Second language acquisition by native Chinese speakers” — Gisela Jia;
- “Making explicit children’s implicit epilanguage in learning to read Chinese” — Che Kan Leong;
- “Emergent literacy skills in Chinese” — Catherine McBride-Chang and Yiping Zhong;
- “Basic syntactic categories in early language development” — Rushen Shi;
- “Growth of orthography-phonology knowledge in the Chinese writing system” — Hua Shu and Ningning Wu;
- “Interaction of biological and environmental factors in phonological learning” — Stephanie Stokes;
- “The importance of verbs in Chinese” — Twila Tardif;
- “Grammar acquisition via parameter setting” — Charles Yang;
- “Early bilingual acquisition in the Chinese context” — Virginia Yip;
- Language Processing:
- “Word form encoding in Chinese speech production” — Jenn-Yeu Chen and Gary S. Dell;
- “Effects of semantic radical consistency and combinability on the Chinese character processing” — May Jane Chen, Brendan S Weekes, Danling Peng and Qin Lei;
- “Eye movement in Chinese reading: basic processes and cross-linguistic differences” — Gary Feng;
- “The Chinese character in psycholinguistic research: form, structure and the reader” — Douglas Honorof and Laurie Feldman;
- “Perception and production of Chinese tones” — Allard Jongman, Yue Wang, Corinne B. Moore and Joan A. Sereno;
- “Phonological mediation in visual word recognition in English and Chinese” — In-mao Liu, Jei-tun Wu, Iue-ruey Sue and Sau-chin Chen;
- “Reading Chinese characters: orthography, phonology, meaning and the textual constituency model” — Charles A. Perfetti and Ying Liu;
- “Processing of characters by native Chinese readers” — Marcus Taft;
- “L2 acquisition and the processing of Mandarin tones” — Yue Wang, Joan A. Sereno and Allard Jongman;
- “The comprehension of coreference in Chinese discourse” — Chin Lung Yang, Peter C. Gordon and Randall Hendrick;
- “Lexical ambiguity resolution in Chinese sentence processing” — Yaxu Zhang, Ningning Wu and Michael Yip;
- Language and the Brain:
- “The relationship between language and cognition” — Terry Kit-fong Au;
- “Language processing in bilinguals as revealed by functional imaging: a contemporary synthesis” — Michael W. L. Chee;
- “Specific language impairment in Chinese” — Paul Fletcher, Stephanie Stokes and Anita M.-Y. Wong;
- “Brain mapping of Chinese speech prosody” — Jackson T. Gandour;
- “Modelling language acquisition and representation in connectionist networks” — Ping Li;
- “The manifestation of aphasia syndromes in Chinese” — Jerome L. Packard;
- “Naming of Chinese phonograms: from cognitive science to cognitive neuroscience” — Dan-ling Peng and Hua Jiang;
- “How the brain reads the Chinese language: recent neuroimaging findings” — Li Hai Tan and Wai Ting Siok;
- Epilogue: A tribute to Elizabeth Bates.