ABSTRACT
In this chapter we compare the processing of English by Chinese-English bilinguals with that of monolingual English speakers. We have selected Chinese-English bilinguals (whom we often call “Chinese”) for comparison to mono-lingual English speakers (whom we often call “Americans”) for three interrelated reasons, (a) First, the Chinese and English languages differ on important linguistic dimensions, some of which question theories about linguistic universals. In contrast, most of the past bilingual research has focused on either Spanish/English or French/English speakers. Focusing on a non-Indo-European language may reveal differences that do not emerge when comparing two members of the same language family.
