Zhenguang G Cai
Biographic Data
| ID | 1666236 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhenguang G Cai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhenguang G |
| FAMILY NAME | Cai |
| SIGNATURE | CAI Z G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4097-6038 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Incipient Constituents: Phonesthemes Facilitate Word Processing in English
Phonesthemes are sound clusters that recur in words with related meanings. For example, glow, gleam, and glitter begin with the phonestheme /gl/. Experiments with pseudowords provide evidence that phonesthemes affect how people retrieve and represent meanings, which suggests that phonesthemes capture language evolution in action, namely the emergence of compositionality. However, there is little evidence that phonesthemes affect how people proces…
Speaker effects in language comprehension: An integrative model of language and speaker processing
The identity of a speaker influences language comprehension through modulating perception and expectation. This review explores speaker effects and proposes an integrative model of language and speaker processing that integrates distinct mechanistic perspectives. We argue that speaker effects arise from the interplay between bottom-up perception-based processes, driven by acoustic-episodic memory, and top-down expectation-based processes, driven …
Developmental dysgraphia from alphabetic to Chinese scripts: A review of neurocognitive mechanisms, classification, and assessment
Culture and Language Nativeness Affect Spatial Perspective Taking in Language Production
Speakers typically describe scenes from their own spatial perspective, but have the ability to use allocentric perspectives as well. In two experiments, we examined how cultural, language, and situational factors affect which perspective speakers choose when describing the spatial locations of objects. Experiment 1 found that native Chinese speakers were more likely to use an allocentric perspective when describing scenes that included a person w…
Grammaticality representation in ChatGPT as compared to linguists and laypeople
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various linguistic tasks. However, it remains uncertain whether LLMs have developed human-like fine-grained grammatical intuition. This preregistered study ( https://osf.io/t5nes/?view_only=07c7590306624eb7a6510d5c69e26c02 ) presents the first large-scale investigation of ChatGPT’s grammatical intuition, building upon a previous study that collected laypeople’s grammati…
The Missing Half of Language Learning in Current Developmental Language Models: Exogenous and Endogenous Linguistic Input
Developmental language models (DLMs) aim to replicate the efficiency of child language acquisition but often focus solely on the estimation of exogenous linguistic input. We argue that a child’s linguistic growth is also critically shaped by endogenous processes, including (1) co-opting language in non-linguistic perception and cognition, (2) engaging in private and inner speech, and (3) benefiting from neural replay of linguistic information dur…
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Machine translation of Chinese classical poetry: A comparison among ChatGPT, Google Translate, and DeepL Translator
Recent studies have highlighted ChatGPT’s remarkable capabilities in machine translation. However, little attention has been paid to its application in literary translation, particularly within the realm of Chinese classical poetry. To explore the potential of ChatGPT’s abilities in poetry translation, we conducted a comparative analysis of poetry translation quality, contrasting ChatGPT (with two different prompts) with Google Translate and Deep…
Modality-general and modality-specific bilingual control mechanisms in spoken and written productions
Do bilinguals have similar bilingual control mechanisms in speaking and writing? The present study investigated the patterns of switch costs (reflecting reactive language control) and mixing costs (reflecting proactive language control) between Chinese (L1) and English (L2) in spoken and written productions and whether these patterns could be modulated by response-stimulus intervals (RSIs). In two experiments, unbalanced Chinese–English bilingual…
Systematic mappings of sound to meaning: A theoretical review
Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words
Structural priming: An experimental paradigm for mapping linguistic representations
Previous reviews have extensively explored structural priming, but there is a noticeable absence of comprehensive discussion on its potential as a tool for mapping linguistic representations in various fields. This paper addresses this gap by reviewing studies that have utilised structural priming to tackle psycholinguistic issues beyond the persistence of syntactic structures itself. We discuss how structural priming can be employed to map synta…
Planning ahead: Interpreters predict source language in consecutive interpreting
Interpreters are hypothesized to anticipate the source language (SL) in comprehension and the target language (TL) in production to facilitate timely delivery. In two experiments, we examined whether interpreters make more predictions in SL comprehension in consecutive interpreting than in regular language comprehension and whether such enhanced prediction (if any) is constrained by cognitive resources. Participants were quicker at reading a pred…
A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)
The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is a well-known demonstration of the role of motor activity in the comprehension of language. Participants are asked to make sensibility judgments on sentences by producing movements toward the body or away from the body. The ACE is the finding that movements are faster when the direction of the movement (e.g., toward ) matches the direction of the action in the to-be-judged sentence (e.g., Art gave …
Interlocutor modelling in comprehending speech from interleaved interlocutors of different dialectic backgrounds
New neighbours make bad fences: Form-based semantic shifts in word learning
Cross-dimensional magnitude interaction is modulated by representational noise: Evidence from space–time interaction
How do people interpret implausible sentences
Cross-dimensional magnitude interactions reflect statistical correlations among physical dimensions: Evidence from space-time interaction
Magnitudes of different physical dimensions have been assumed to be processed by a common metric in order to account for interactions between different dimensions (e.g., space, time). This paper tested a different hypothesis, that these cross-dimensional interactions reflect people's experience of statistical correlations among physical dimensions. In the experiment, we manipulated the correlation between space (length) and time (duration). A sti…
Interlocutor modelling in lexical alignment: The role of linguistic competence
Character amnesia in Chinese handwriting: A Mega-Study Analysis
The sound of gender: Inferring the Gender of Names in a Foreign Language
The sound of gender: Inferring the Gender of Names in a Foreign Language
Interlocutor modelling in lexical alignment: The role of linguistic competence
Character amnesia in Chinese handwriting: A Mega-Study Analysis
Planning ahead: Interpreters predict source language in consecutive interpreting
Interpreters are hypothesized to anticipate the source language (SL) in comprehension and the target language (TL) in production to facilitate timely delivery. In two experiments, we examined whether interpreters make more predictions in SL comprehension in consecutive interpreting than in regular language comprehension and whether such enhanced prediction (if any) is constrained by cognitive resources. Participants were quicker at reading a pred…
A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE)
The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is a well-known demonstration of the role of motor activity in the comprehension of language. Participants are asked to make sensibility judgments on sentences by producing movements toward the body or away from the body. The ACE is the finding that movements are faster when the direction of the movement (e.g., toward ) matches the direction of the action in the to-be-judged sentence (e.g., Art gave …
Interlocutor modelling in comprehending speech from interleaved interlocutors of different dialectic backgrounds
New neighbours make bad fences: Form-based semantic shifts in word learning
Cross-dimensional magnitude interaction is modulated by representational noise: Evidence from space–time interaction
How do people interpret implausible sentences
Cross-dimensional magnitude interactions reflect statistical correlations among physical dimensions: Evidence from space-time interaction
Magnitudes of different physical dimensions have been assumed to be processed by a common metric in order to account for interactions between different dimensions (e.g., space, time). This paper tested a different hypothesis, that these cross-dimensional interactions reflect people's experience of statistical correlations among physical dimensions. In the experiment, we manipulated the correlation between space (length) and time (duration). A sti…
Machine translation of Chinese classical poetry: A comparison among ChatGPT, Google Translate, and DeepL Translator
Recent studies have highlighted ChatGPT’s remarkable capabilities in machine translation. However, little attention has been paid to its application in literary translation, particularly within the realm of Chinese classical poetry. To explore the potential of ChatGPT’s abilities in poetry translation, we conducted a comparative analysis of poetry translation quality, contrasting ChatGPT (with two different prompts) with Google Translate and Deep…
Modality-general and modality-specific bilingual control mechanisms in spoken and written productions
Do bilinguals have similar bilingual control mechanisms in speaking and writing? The present study investigated the patterns of switch costs (reflecting reactive language control) and mixing costs (reflecting proactive language control) between Chinese (L1) and English (L2) in spoken and written productions and whether these patterns could be modulated by response-stimulus intervals (RSIs). In two experiments, unbalanced Chinese–English bilingual…
Systematic mappings of sound to meaning: A theoretical review
Wayward associations: When and why people think of similar-sounding words
Structural priming: An experimental paradigm for mapping linguistic representations
Previous reviews have extensively explored structural priming, but there is a noticeable absence of comprehensive discussion on its potential as a tool for mapping linguistic representations in various fields. This paper addresses this gap by reviewing studies that have utilised structural priming to tackle psycholinguistic issues beyond the persistence of syntactic structures itself. We discuss how structural priming can be employed to map synta…
Grammaticality representation in ChatGPT as compared to linguists and laypeople
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance across various linguistic tasks. However, it remains uncertain whether LLMs have developed human-like fine-grained grammatical intuition. This preregistered study ( https://osf.io/t5nes/?view_only=07c7590306624eb7a6510d5c69e26c02 ) presents the first large-scale investigation of ChatGPT’s grammatical intuition, building upon a previous study that collected laypeople’s grammati…
The Missing Half of Language Learning in Current Developmental Language Models: Exogenous and Endogenous Linguistic Input
Developmental language models (DLMs) aim to replicate the efficiency of child language acquisition but often focus solely on the estimation of exogenous linguistic input. We argue that a child’s linguistic growth is also critically shaped by endogenous processes, including (1) co-opting language in non-linguistic perception and cognition, (2) engaging in private and inner speech, and (3) benefiting from neural replay of linguistic information dur…
Measuring the semantic priming effect across many languages
Incipient Constituents: Phonesthemes Facilitate Word Processing in English
Phonesthemes are sound clusters that recur in words with related meanings. For example, glow, gleam, and glitter begin with the phonestheme /gl/. Experiments with pseudowords provide evidence that phonesthemes affect how people retrieve and represent meanings, which suggests that phonesthemes capture language evolution in action, namely the emergence of compositionality. However, there is little evidence that phonesthemes affect how people proces…
Speaker effects in language comprehension: An integrative model of language and speaker processing
The identity of a speaker influences language comprehension through modulating perception and expectation. This review explores speaker effects and proposes an integrative model of language and speaker processing that integrates distinct mechanistic perspectives. We argue that speaker effects arise from the interplay between bottom-up perception-based processes, driven by acoustic-episodic memory, and top-down expectation-based processes, driven …
Developmental dysgraphia from alphabetic to Chinese scripts: A review of neurocognitive mechanisms, classification, and assessment
Culture and Language Nativeness Affect Spatial Perspective Taking in Language Production
Speakers typically describe scenes from their own spatial perspective, but have the ability to use allocentric perspectives as well. In two experiments, we examined how cultural, language, and situational factors affect which perspective speakers choose when describing the spatial locations of objects. Experiment 1 found that native Chinese speakers were more likely to use an allocentric perspective when describing scenes that included a person w…
Psychology (15 works) · Linguistics (14 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (10 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Comprehension (7 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (5 works)