ABSTRACT
This chapter presents comparative studies on Chinese reading processes, mainly between processing Chinese and English. The two languages are drastically different not only in their respective orthographies, but also in their syntactic patterns and discourse grammars. As Cutler (1998) once proposed: ‘Psycholinguistics is comparatively healthy’. Her argument, with which we agree, is that only by comparison can we see what is universal in human cognitive behavior and what is unique in processing a particular language.
