Language Disorders in Speakers of Chinese

Sam-Po Law is an Associate Professor at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. She was trained in developmental psychology and linguistics. Her research interests in Chinese language disorders include acquired dyslexia and dysgraphia, lexical and sentence processing deficits, and language rehabilitation of individuals with aphasia.Brendan Weekes is an experimental psychologist who studies the psychology of language and memory - specifically word recognition and recall. He examines cognitive processes using cross-linguistic, neuropsychological and brain imaging methods. His research can be applied to understanding problems in clinical neuropsychology including bilingual aphasia, dementia and reading difficulties.Anita Wong is an Assistant Professor at the Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. A speech-language pathologist by training, she has worked with English- and Chinese-speaking children with developmental speech and language disorders. Her current research interests include the early identification of language impairment, and the underlying linguistic and cognitive deficits in Cantonese-speaking children with SLI.

This outstanding book contains data and analyses from distinguished native-speaker contributors and their colleagues. Because Chinese differs dramatically from European languages, these lucid presentations challenge theorists and practitioners of all theoretical persuasions. This is essential reading even for language professionals who never expect to deal with Chinese at first hand.

• ContributorsPreface1 Characteristics of Chinese in Relation to Language Disorders - Roxana Fung2 The Role of Phonological Saliency and Phonological Template in Typically and Atypically Developing Phonology: Evidence from Putonghua-speaking Children - Hua Zhu3 Grammatical Characteristics of Mandarin-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment - Hintat Cheung4 A Construction Account of Question Acquisition in Cantonese-speaking Children with SLI - Anita M-Y. Wong and Stephanie F. Stokes5 Morphosyntactic Deficits in Cantonese-speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment - Paul Fletcher, Laurence B. Leonard, Stephanie F. Stokes, and Anita M-Y. Wong6 Assessing Cantonese-speaking Children with Language Difficulties from the Perspective of Evidence-based Practice: Current Practice and Future Directions - Thomas Klee, Anita M–Y. Wong, Stephanie F. Stokes, Paul Fletcher and Laurence B. Leonard7 Morphological Deficit and Dyslexia Subtypes in Chinese - Sina Wu, Jerome L. Packard and Hua Shu8 Developmental Dyslexia in Chinese: Behavioural, Genetic and Neuropsychological Issues - Kathrin Klingebiel and Brendan S. Weekes9 Lexical Tones Perceived by Chinese Aphasic Subjects - Jie Liang10 Selective Grammatical-class Deficits: Implications for the Representation of Grammatical Information in Chinese - Zaizhu Han and Yanchao Bi11 Acquired Reading Disorders in Chinese: Implications for Models of Reading - Brendan S. Weekes, I Fan Su, and Wengang Yin12 Age of Acquisition Effects on Picture Naming in Chinese Anomia - Sam-Po Law, Brendan S. Weekes, Olivia Yeung and Karen Chiu13 The Effect of Semantic Integrity of Words with Preserved Lexico-phonological Representation on Verbal Recall - Winsy Wong and Sam-Po Law14 Cantonese Linguistic Communication Measure (CLCM): A Clinical Tool for Assessing Aphasic Narrative Production - Anthony Pak-Hin Kong and Sam-Po Law15 A Semantic Treatment for Cantonese Anomic Patients: Implications for the Relationship Between Impairment and Therapy - Sam-Po Law, Winsy Wong and Elva Wong16 Acquired Dyslexia in Mongolian and Chinese - Brendan S. Weekes and I Fan SuIndex