Eastward Flows the Great River
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Eastward Flows the Great River

Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. WANG on his 80th Birthday

  1. 571 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 17 Jan |Learn more

Eastward Flows the Great River

Festschrift in Honor of Professor William S-Y. WANG on his 80th Birthday

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. 1. How Many Chinese Words Have Elastic Length?
  2. 2. More Gradual than Abrupt
  3. 3. Phonetic Features of Colloquial Cantonese
  4. 4. Linguistic Adaptation: The Trade-Off between Case Marking and Fixed Word Orders in Germanic and Romance Languages
  5. 5. On the Value of the Han’gul Letter E in Certain Korean Transcriptions of Ming-Time Chinese
  6. 6. Investigations into Determinants of the Diversity of the World’s Languages
  7. 7. From Cognition to Language
  8. 8. Arguments for a Construction-Based Approach to the Analysis of Sino-Tibetan Languages
  9. 9. The Language Niche
  10. 10. Contextual Predictability Facilitates Early Orthographic Processing and Semantic Integration in Visual Word Recognition: An Event-Related Potential Study
  11. 11. Larynx Height and Constriction in Mandarin Tones
  12. 12. Bimanual Coordination and Motor Learning in Pianists and Non-Musicians: A 3T fMRI Study
  13. 13. Searching for Language Origins
  14. 14. Productivity of Mandarin Third Tone Sandhi: A Wug Test
  15. 15. On Modality Effects and Relative Syntactic Uniformity of Sign Languages
  16. 16. Visualizing the Architecture and Texture of a Text: A Case Study of Selected Speeches of US President Barack Obama
  17. 17. Northern-Min Glottalized Onsets and the Principles of Tonal Split and Tonal Merger
  18. 18. Different Semantic Nature of Homonym, Metaphor and Polysemy in Mandarin Chinese: Evidence from Behavioral and Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Experiments
  19. 19. A Few Morphological Functions of the Suffix *-s in Shang Chinese #
  20. 20. Computer Simulation of Language Convergence
  21. 21. On the Evolution of Language and Brain
  22. 22. On the History of Chinese Directionals
  23. 23. A Target Location Cue in a Visual Speller: The N200 ERP Component
  24. 24. Consensus in Language Dynamics: Naming, Categorizing and Blending
  25. 25. Data Acquisition and Prosodic Analysis for Mandarin Attitudinal Speech
  26. Appendix