Announcing: SENTENCE PROCESSING IN EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES

Christine Sosa sosa at CSLI.STANFORD.EDU
Mon Jun 10 22:30:51 UTC 2002


CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the availability of:

SENTENCE PROCESSING IN EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES ; Mineharu Nakayama (The
Ohio State University), ed. ;paper ISBN: 1-57586-308-1, $27.50, cloth
ISBN: 1-57586-307-3, $67.50, 304 pages. CSLI Publications 2002.
http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: pubs at csli.stanford.edu.

To order this book, contact The University of Chicago Press. Call
their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736  (U.S. & Canada only)  or
order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search
feature to locate the book, then order).

Book description:

Researchers in the fields of linguistics, psychology, cognitive
science, and neuroscience have long been interested in the
development of a universal theory of how humans process language.
Many believe that the creation of such a theory could significantly
assist in the understanding of how the human brain works. For this
reason, much research has been performed on sentence processing in
English and other Indo-European languages. Yet many East Asian
languages have received relatively little attention. This book is the
first of its kind to discuss how native speakers of Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean process sentences in their native tongues.
Although these three languages share similar characteristics, this
volume acknowledges and discusses specific issues that are unique to
each language. The contributing authors investigate the effects of
homophones on lexical ambiguity in Chinese, the impact of word order
in Japanese, and the impact of prosody on structural ambiguity in
Korean. The findings presented have important implications for
sentence processing and cognitive processing models, and by extension
contribute toward the construction of a universal theory of human
language processing.

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