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Chapter abstracts:

Some related material:

• Myers, J. (2024, February). Quantitative evidence for a grammatical analysis of Chinese character component size. Poster presented at the 46th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), February 27 - March 1. Ruhr University Bochum.

• Myers, J. (2023). Interactions among patterns in Chinese character form. National Chung Cheng University ms.

• Myers, J. (2022). Teaching Chinese character grammar. Chinese Language Learning and Technology 《臺大華語文學習與科技》, 2(2), 1-37.

  [Summarized in Myers, J. (2023). Chinese character grammar and Chinese teaching. Presented at 中文識字與閱讀理解國際工作坊 (International Workshop of Chinese characters and reading), June 2-3, 2023.]

• Myers, J. (2022, September). Thin & curvy: Unconscious knowledge of a subtle Chinese character stroke pattern. Presented online at The 34th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-34), September 23-25 (hybrid conference hosted at Indiana University Bloomington).

• Myers, J. (2022). The lexical “morphology”and “phonology” of Chinese character form. Talk presented online at 35e Journées de linguistique d’Asie orientale [35th Paris Meeting on East Asian Linguistics], July 7-9.

• Myers, J. (2022). What Chinese readers see in character components. Rejected conference abstract.

• Myers, J. (2021). Areal script form patterns with Chinese characteristics. Written Language & Literacy, 24(2), 259-283. [Official page]

• Myers, J. (2021). Levels of structure within Chinese character constituents. In Y. Haralambous (Ed.) Grapholinguistics in the 21st Century: From graphemes to knowledge, Part II (pp. 645-582). Paris: Fluxus Editions.

• Myers, J. (2019, December). 漢字結構是否相似於韻律結構？ Presented at 漢字的多元面向：跨領域對話的契機, National Tsinghua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan.

• Myers, J., & Chen, T.-Y. (2018, October). Productive knowledge of formal regularities in Chinese characters. ICPEAL 17 - CLDC 9, Taipei. (Warning: conference link may automatically open/download a PDF file, depending on your browser)

• Myers, J. (2018). The influence of Chinese character form regularities on other orthographic systems. National Chung Cheng University ms. [rejected conference abstract: reviews]

• Myers, J. (2017, October). Prosodic structure in Chinese characters, revisited. 2017 ILAS Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology, Taipei.

• Myers, J. (2017, June). Grammaticalization frozen in ink: Chinese character semantic radicals as proto-affixes. The 25th meething of the International Association of Chinese Linguistics (IACL25), Budapest.

• Myers, J. (2017). The time course of metalinguistic well-formedness judgments in a natural visual system. National Chung Cheng University ms (draft of withdrawn conference talk).

• Myers, J. (2016, December). Chinese character form and the mathematics of productivity. International Conference on Asian Linguistics 2016, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

• Myers, J. (2016). Knowing Chinese character grammar. Cognition, 147, 127-132. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.11.012. [Materials and raw data]

• Myers, J. (2012, August). Levels of analysis in the generalization of Chinese character regularities. Presented at CogSci 2012: The 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Sapporo, Japan.

• Myers, J. (2011, September). The psychological reality of formal regularities in Chinese characters. Talk presented at the 7th Conference of the European Association of Chinese Linguistics, Venice, Italy.

• Myers, J. (1996, June). Prosodic structure in Chinese characters. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on Chinese Linguistics, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan.