Eastward flows the great river : festschrift in honor of professor William S-Y. Wang on his 80th birthday / edited by Peng Gang, Shi Feng.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peng, Gang, editor.

Shi, Feng, 1949- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (lv, 513 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Kowloon, Hong Kong : City University of Hong Kong Press, [2013]

Summary:

The Festschrift has over sixty contributions by scholars from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, East Asia, North America and Europe, partitioned in Chinese and English volumes. Authors are active in areas of various linguistic frontiers, investigating language and linguistics from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Contents:

Intro

1. How Many Chinese Words Have Elastic Length?

2. More Gradual than Abrupt

3. Phonetic Features of Colloquial Cantonese

4. Linguistic Adaptation: The Trade-Off between Case Marking and Fixed Word Orders in Germanic and Romance Languages

5. On the Value of the Han'gul Letter E in Certain Korean Transcriptions of Ming-Time Chinese

6. Investigations into Determinants of the Diversity of the World's Languages

7. From Cognition to Language

8. Arguments for a Construction-Based Approach to the Analysis of Sino-Tibetan Languages

9. The Language Niche

10. Contextual Predictability Facilitates Early Orthographic Processing and Semantic Integration in Visual Word Recognition: An Event-Related Potential Study

11. Larynx Height and Constriction in Mandarin Tones

12. Bimanual Coordination and Motor Learning in Pianists and Non-Musicians: A 3T fMRI Study

13. Searching for Language Origins

14. Productivity of Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi: A Wug Test

15. On Modality Effects and Relative Syntactic Uniformity of Sign Languages

16. Visualizing the Architecture and Texture of a Text: A Case Study of Selected Speeches of US President Barack Obama

17. Northern-Min Glottalized Onsets and the Principles of Tonal Split and Tonal Merger

18. Different Semantic Nature of Homonym, Metaphor and Polysemy in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Behavioral and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Experiments

19. A Few Morphological Functions of the Suffix *-s in Shang Chinese #

20. Computer Simulation of Language Convergence

21. On the Evolution of Language and Brain

22. On the History of Chinese Directionals

23. A Target Location Cue in a Visual Speller: The N200 ERP Component

24. Consensus in Language Dynamics: Naming, Categorizing and Blending.

25. Data Acquisition and Prosodic Analysis for Mandarin Attitudinal Speech

Appendix.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

962-937-507-9