Basic Functions of Language, Reading and Reading Disability [electronic resource] / edited by Evelin Witruk, Angela D. Friederici, Thomas Lachmann

This highly interdisciplinary project presents new results and the state of the art of knowledge in the psychology and neurophysiology of language, reading and dyslexia. It concentrates on basic cognitive functions of understanding and producing language and disorders within its spoken and written execution. The book grew out of the Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders conference (Leipzig, Sept. 1999).