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:

1. 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;
2. 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;
3. 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;
4. Epilogue: A tribute to Elizabeth Bates.