South and Southeast Asian Psycholinguistics

Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 11/28/2013
EAN 9781107017764, ISBN10: 1107017769

Hardcover, 487 pages, 22.9 x 15 x 2.5 cm
Language: English

A large body of knowledge has accumulated in recent years on the cognitive processes underlying language, much of which comes from studies of Indo-European languages, in particular English. This groundbreaking volume explores the languages of South and Southeast Asia, which differ significantly from Indo-European languages in their grammar, lexicon and spoken forms. This book raises new questions in psycholinguistics and enables readers to re-evaluate previous models in light of new research. With thirty-six chapters divided into three parts - Language Acquisition, Language Processing and Language and Brain - it examines contemporary topics alongside new findings in areas such as first and second language acquisition, the development of literacy, the diagnosis of language and reading disorders, and the relationship between language, brain, culture and cognition. It will be invaluable to all those interested in the languages of South and Southeast Asia, as well as psychologists, linguists, educationalists, speech therapists and neuroscientists.

Introduction Heather Winskel
Part I. Language Acquisition
Section 1. Spoken Language
1. Studying language acquisition cross-linguistically Sabine Stoll and Elena Lieven
2. Infant directed speech
social and linguistic pathways in tonal and non-tonal languages Christine Kitamura
3. Pragmatic development of Mandarin-speaking young children
focus on communicative acts between children and their mothers Jing Zhou
4. Referential forms in Thai children's narratives Theeraporn Ratitamkul
5. The acquisition of tense and aspect Yasuhiro Shirai
6. The acquisition of Malay numeral classifiers Khazriyati Salehuddin
7. The acquisition of Vietnamese numeral classifiers Jennie Tran
8. An overview of the acquisition of Malay wh-questions Norhaida Aman
9. Marking plurals
the acquisition of nominal number inflection in Marathi Shalmalee Pitale and Vaiyayanthi M. Sarma
10. Issues in the acquisition of Tamil verb morphology Vaijayanthi M. Sarma
11. Fast mapping of novel words in bi/multilinguals Vishnu K. K. Nair, Sunil Kumar Ravi, Sapna Bhat and Shyamala K. Chengappa
12. Studies on the acquisition of morphology and syntax among Malay children in Malaysia
issues, challenges and needs Rogayah A. Razak
13. Issues in developing grammatical assessment tools in Chinese and Malay for speech and language therapy Lixian Jin, Rogayah A. Razak, Jannet Wright and John Song
Section 2. Written Language
14. Reading and reading acquisition in European languages Brian Byrne, Stefan Samuelsson and Richard K. Olson
15. Learning to read and write in Thai Heather Winskel
16. Learning to read and write in Indonesian/Malaysian
a transparent alphabetic orthography Heather Winskel and Lay Wah Lee
17. Literacy in Kannada, an alpha-syllabic orthography R. Malatesha Joshi
18. Reading in Tamil
a more alphabetic and less syllabic akshara based orthography Bhuvaneshwari B. and Prakash Padakannaya
19. Akshara-syllable mappings in Bengali
a language-specific skill for reading Shruti Sircar and Sonali Nag
20. Diversity in bilingual children's spelling skill development
the case of Singapore Susan Rickard Liow
Part II. Language Processing
21. Tones and voice registers Arthur S. Abramson
22. How to compare tones Nan Xu, Virginie Attina, Benjawan Kasisopa and Denis Burnham
23. Studying sentence generation during scene viewing in Hindi with eye tracking Ramesh Mishra
24. Thai specific and general reading processes in developing and skilled Thai readers Jeesun Kim and Chris Davis
25. Eye movement guidance in reading unspaced text in Thai and Chinese Jie-Li Tsai
26. SE Asian writing systems
a challenge to current models of visual information processing in reading Ronan Reilly
27. Preferred argument structure and Thai varieties of English
evidence of cognitive processing limitations? Thom Huebner
28. Cross-language perception of word-final stops Kimiko Tsukada
29. Uncovering bilingual memory representations Winston D. Goh, Lidia Suárez and Kelly Yeo
30. Eye movements and reading in the alphasyllabic scripts of South and Southeast Asia Heather Winskel, Prakash Padakannaya and Aparna Pandey
Part III. Language and Brain
31. Aphasia to imaging
the neurolinguistic endeavor as it reflects on South and Southeast Asian languages Loraine K. Obler and Avanthi Niranjan Paplikar
32. Neural bases of lexical tones Jackson T. Gandour and Ananthanarayan Krishnan
33. Hemispheric asymmetry in word recognition for a right-to-left script
the case of Urdu Chaitra Rao, Jyotsna Vaid and Hsin-Chin Chen
34. The declarative procedural model of language
a new framework for studying the non-inflecting languages of Southeast Asia? Tomasina Oh
35. Language mixing in bilingual aphasia
an Indian perspective Sapna Bhat and Shyamala Chengappa
36. The relationship between language and cognition Heather Winskel and Sudaporn Luksaneeyanawin.

Advance praise: 'The 'anglocentrism' of traditional psycholinguistics has undermined a full understanding of both the universal and language-specific aspects of language processing. This book provides a desperately needed remedy, an invaluable resource on language processing in some of the richest and most diverse languages spoken by millions of people.' Johannes Ziegler, CNRS and Aix-Marseille University