This ground breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese
'doesn't have words' but instead 'has characters'. Jerome Packard's
book provides a comprehensive discussion of the linguistic and
cognitive nature of Chinese words. It shows that Chinese, far from
being 'morphologically impoverished', has a different morphological
system because it selects different 'settings' on parameters shared
by all languages. The analysis of Chinese word formation therefore
enhances our understanding of word universals. Packard describes
the intimate relationship between words and their components,
including how the identities of Chinese morphemes are word-driven,
and offers new insights into the evolution of morphemes based on
Chinese data. Models are offered for how Chinese words are stored
in the mental lexicon and processed in natural speech, showing that
much of what native speakers know about words occurs innately in
the form of a hard-wired, specifically linguistic 'program' in the
brain.
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