ABSTRACT
In the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Chinese psycholinguistics was driven by the psychology of Chinese script processing, due to intense popular and academic interest in the properties of the Chinese writing system. The decade of the 1970s showed a broadening beyond the Chinese character processing paradigm, expanding to include the psycholinguistics of Chinese as a spoken and aurally perceived language. This chapter therefore begins with a discussion of Chinese graph processing, followed by the psycholinguistics of lexical access, sentence processing, speech perception and speech production in Chinese.
