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Cross-Cultural Transfer in Gesture Frequency in Chinese-English Bilinguals
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So, Wing Chee – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2010
The purpose of this paper is to examine cross-cultural differences in gesture frequency and the extent to which exposure to two cultures would affect the gesture frequency of bilinguals when speaking in both languages. The Chinese-speaking monolinguals from China, English-speaking monolinguals from America, and Chinese-English bilinguals from…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Asian Culture, Cultural Differences
Immediacy of Integration in Discourse Comprehension: Evidence from Chinese Readers' Eye Movements
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Wang, Suiping; Chen, Hsuan-Chih; Yang, Jinmian; Mo, Lei – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2008
An eye-movement study was conducted to examine whether Chinese readers immediately activate and integrate related background information during discourse comprehension. Participants were asked to read short passages, each containing a critical word that fitted well within the local context but was inconsistent or neutral with background…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Written Language, Chinese
Morphological Structure in the Chinese Mental Lexicon.
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Zhou, Xiaolin; Marslen-Wilson, William – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1995
Investigates the role of morphological structure in the representation and processing of Mandarin Chinese compounds. Results provide evidence against single-layer, morpheme-based models of the Chinese mental lexicon, pointing instead to a two-layer, whole-word and morphemic model (the Multi-Level Cluster Representation Model). (67 references)…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Associative Learning, College Students, Contrastive Linguistics