Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics:
Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol.1: Chinese)
Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol.2: Japanese) (This volume)
Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol.3: Korean) (expected 2007)

Handbook of East Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol. 2: Japanese)

Editors: Mineharu Nakayama , Reiko Mazuka , and Yasuhiro Shirai

Cambridge University Press (2006)

ISBN 10 0 521 83334 5 hardback (ISBN 13 978 0 521 83334 9)

A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes and brain mechanisms underlying language. Much of this knowledge has come from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. Japanese, a language of growing interest to linguists, differs significantly from most Indo-European languages in its grammar, its lexicon, and its written and spoken forms - features which have profound implications for the learning, representation and processing of language. This handbook, the second in a three-volume series on East Asian psycholinguistics, presents a state-of-the-art discussion of the psycholinguistic study of Japanese. With contributions by over fifty leading scholars, it covers topics in first and second language acquisition, language processing and reading, language disorders in children and adults, and the relationships between language, brain, culture, and cognition. It will be invaluable to all scholars and students interested in the Japanese language, as well as cognitive psychologists, linguists, and neuroscientists.

See Introduction chapter, index, and contributors information

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