Processing and Producing Head-final Structures

This book is the first collection of studies on an important yet under-investigated linguistic phenomenon, the processing and production of head-final syntactic

This book traces the lines of research that grew out of Thomas Bever's "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". Leading scientists review over 40 years o

Chinese is a discourse-oriented language and the underlying mechanisms of the language involve encoding and decoding so the language can be correctly delivered

This book is a collection of 13 empirical studies examining the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language. On the acquisition front, these stud

Language users have access to several sources of information during the build up of a meaningful construction. These include grammatical rules, situational know

Explorations of language development in different types of learner populations and across various languages. This volume examines language development in differ

What are the psychological processes involved in comprehending sentences? How do we process the structure of sentences and how do we understand their meaning? D

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Applied Linguistics is written for those wanting to acquire comprehensive knowledge of China, the diaspora and the Sino-sphere

This book combines ideas about the architecture of grammar and language acquisition, processing, and change to explain why languages show regular patterns when