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Cognitive and Neuroscience Studies of the Chinese Language is a collection the latest international research into the processing of Chinese language. It contains cutting edge papers discussing research from connectionist and functional neuroimaging perspectives and the acquisition of lexical meaning and semantic structures from computational viewpoints. The volume also includes papers on phonological, orthographic and semantic strategies in reading and recognizing Chinese words. There are in addition critical psycholinguistic analyses in mapping phonology and meaning of Chinese words and early phonological activation. There are succinct papers in the spirit of corpus linguistics on the development of vocabulary in Chinese secondary school students. Thus the 16 chapters span from the basic to the more applied research.

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'A substantial volume of data and information relating to Hong Kong practice has been incorporated into existing knowledge, and methodically presented.' --Professor S. Ganesan, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong 'Written to serve undergraduates of construction-related programmes and students taking postgraduate bridging courses, the strength of this book lies in its reference to local practice.' --Professor C. M. Tam, Department of Building and Construction, City

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Henry S.R.Kao is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong. CheKan Leong is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Saskatchewan. Ding-Guo Gao is at the Zhongshan University. They are also members of the Chinese Language Cognitive Science Research Center at the University of Hong Kong.

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