This book analyzes linguistic rhythm from phonetic perspective, especially the rhythmic characteristics and types of Chinese language, explores the Chinese language acquisition of child speakers and second language learners, and analyzes the neural mechanism of linguistic rhythmic processing. The explorations of these issues not only help determine the rhythmic characteristics and types of Chinese, but also have important significance to solve the fundamental problems in the linguistic rhythmic studies in the present day, such as the functional mechanism that Ramus put forward, the hypothesis about the linguistic rhythmic types, the functions and interrelations between the pitch pattern and the rhythmic characteristics when they distinguish different languages, and the leading role one's right brain plays in the awareness and production of rhythm and language meter. <br/>
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<strong>About the Author</strong><br/>
Zhang Linjun, Doctor of Basic Psychology and teacher of Beijing Language and Culture University, published more than 30 papers on important academic journals both at home and abroad. Of them, he published 10 English papers as the first author or major participant on the journals collected by SCI/SSCI. Dr. Zhang assumed the major responsibilities and participated in a number of sciences/social sciences projects sponsored by MOE and Beijing municipality. He was<br/>
supported by the Program for New Century Excellent Talents of MOE in 2013. <br/>
