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

这是由美国加州大学伯克利分校王伟民博士和国立中正大学曾伟德教授联合举办的研讨会，并得到美国在台协会-台湾协进会科学合作计划的支持。本次研讨会将重点讨论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的，并特别关注汉语。与“欧洲”语言相比，汉语有三个突出的基本特征：几乎没有屈折形态，词汇音调的使用，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是建立在“欧洲”语言的特征上的。将汉语纳入研讨会，可以大大拓宽现有理论的推导基础，并为人类语言的广泛变化提供依据。**

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. **