U.S.-Taiwan Joint Seminar: Language and its PsychobiologicalBases; Taipei, Taiwan; December 28, 1992 to January 1, 1993

这是由加州大学伯克利分校的威廉·王博士和奥维德·曾教授提出的联合研讨会，国立中正大学获AIT(美国)-CCNAA(台湾)合作科学计划资助。本次研讨会将聚焦于语言及其心理生物学基础。研讨会将探讨语言是如何在人类生物系统中组织起来的，其中特别关注汉语。与“欧洲”语言相比，汉语有三个突出的基本特征：实际上没有屈折的词法，使用词汇声调，以及书写系统的形态音节性质。关于语言的心理生物学基础的大多数理论主要建立在“欧洲”语言的特点上。将汉语包括在内的研讨会可以极大地拓宽现有理论的演绎基础，并提供人类语言的广泛变异。**

This is a joint seminar proposed by Dr. William Wang, the University of California, Berkeley, and Professor Ovid Tseng, National Chung Cheng University supported by the AIT (U.S.)-CCNAA (Taiwan) Cooperative Science Program. This seminar will focus on language and its psychobiological bases. The seminar will explore how language is organized within the human biological systems, with particular attention paid to the Chinese language. Three basic features of Chinese stand out in contrast with "European" language: the virtual absence of inflectional morphology, the use of lexical tones, and the morphosyllabic nature of the writing system. Most theories in the psychobiological bases of language have been primarily built on the features of "European" languages. The seminar to include Chinese can greatly broaden the bases for deducing the current theories and provide for a broad range of variations in human language. **