Handbook of Japanese Psycholinguistics

ISBN-13: 9781614511656 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 678 str.

Opis

The studies of the Japanese language and psycholinguistics have advanced quite significantly in the last half century thanks to the progress in the study of cognition and brain mechanisms, and because of technological developments in experimental techniques. This volume contains 18 chapters that discuss the process of Japanese language acquisition as a first/second language and the mechanism of Japanese language perception and production.

Recenzje

This handbook represents the state-of-the-art in the scientific study of Japanese. This is essential reading for anyone interested in how children acquire Japanese or in the mechanisms used by adult speakers to comprehend and produce Japanese. The chapters are written for a wide audience by prominent scholars.
Stephen Crain, Professor of Linguistics, Macquarie University

This highly professional handbook presents findings and issues in the acquisition and processing of Japanese that have important implications for the general theory. It is impressive in its scope, covering topics ranging from infant's development in perception to sentence processing by L2 speakers of Japanese. It is a valuable resource for anyone investigating language as a component of the mind/brain.

Mamoru Saito, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Philosophy, Nanzan University

The topics selected for this volume, e.g. early language perception, count-mass distinction, root infinitives, quantifier scope, relative clause processing, are all of current theoretical interest for any psycholinguist interested in how abstract properties of language are acquired and processed. This volume, which reports state-of-the-art findings from competing paradigms, will be of immense value to scholars working on East Asian languages.

Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

O autorze

Mineharu Nakayama, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.