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to Basic Functions of Language Reading, and Reading Disability.- From Language to Reading and Reading Disability: Cognitive Functions and their Neural Basis.- Basic Functions of Language Acquisition and Language Comprehension.- Context Effects on Lexical Processing during Auditory Sentence Comprehension On the Time-Course and Neurological Bases of a Basis Comprehension Process.- Measuring the Neural Dynamics of Language Comprehension Processes.- A Model of Learning Syntactic Comprehension for Natural and Artificial Grammars.- The Acquisition of Verb Placement in German: A New Look.- Merge As a Basic Mechanism of Language: Evidence from Language Acquisition.- Basic Functions of Reading.- Cognitive Processes and Eye Movements During Reading.- The Role of Attention and Spatial Selection in Fluent Reading.- The Effect of Focusing on a Sentence in Japanese Reading Span Test.- Basic Functions of Reading Disability.- Reading Disability As a Deficit in Functional Coordination.- The Neurobiology of Reading Difficulties.- A Sensory-Linguistic Approach to Normal and Impaired Reading Development.- Anatomy of the Temporal Processing Deficit in Developmental Dyslexia.- Reading Disabilities in a Language with Transparent Orthography.- Dyslexia, the Cerebellum and Phonological Skill.- Working Memory in Dyslexic Children: How General is the Deficit?.- Kindergarten Phonological Awareness and Rapid Serial Naming as Predictors of Grade 2 Reading and Spelling.- Phonological Recoding Problems in Children with Severe Congenital Speech Impairments: The Importance of Production Speech.- Sublexical and Lexical Processing of Young Adults with Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit: Hyperactivity Disorder.- The Mismatch Negativity As an Index of Auditory Dysfunction in Dyslexia.

The present book contains selected contributions from the international conference "Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders". This conference was held in Leipzig in September 1999, and was organized by the Department of Psychology at the University of Leipzig in collaboration with the Max-Planck Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, and the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. It was held to commemorate the 120th anniversary of the foundation of the world's first institute of experimental psychology by Wilhelm Wundt in Leipzig. This edition examines new results from different fields of psychology and neuro psychology of language, reading, and reading disability. The presented book focuses on the following main topics: - BASIC FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE ACQUISITION AND LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION - BASIC FUNCTIONS OF READING - BASIC FUNCTIONS OF READING DISABILITY The title "Basic Functions of Language, Reading and Reading disability" expresses the interdisciplinary character of the book. It aims not only at bringing together different theoretical approaches, but also at connecting these approaches with applied work. Since it is necessary to understand basic functions of language and reading in order to understand reading disability, the present book strives to foster a scientific exchange, and to promote the emergence of synergy effects between the different fields.