Language processing: Some implications from the study of Chinese

Professor Hsuan-Chih Chen
Ph.D., University of Kansas
Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Seminar

To build a genuinely comprehensive theory of language processing, it is important and useful to conduct cross-language research. The Chinese language, due to its salient differences in structure from European languages, provides challenging opportunities to explore both language-specific processes involved in comprehension and communication, and the universality of theories developed from the study of European languages. In this talk, selected recent studies on processing Chinese and their implications for the general understanding of language processing will be presented and discussed.