Disentangling Dyslexia: Phonological and Processing Deficit in Developmental Dyslexia (Linguistic Insights) - Softcover

Vender, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034320647 ISBN 13: 9783034320641

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017

Synopsis

Beyond the well-known reading and spelling difficulties, dyslexic individuals exhibit marked phonological disorders, poor lexical retrieval and problems in the comprehension and production of grammatical structures that are particularly expensive in terms of processing costs. To account for these difficulties, the author presents an original hypothesis, proposing that dyslexia is related to a working memory inefficiency, affecting in particular the subject’s phonological skills and executive functions. The results of four experimental protocols, assessing dyslexic children’s working memory and their ability to interpret scalar implicatures, negative sentences and pronominal expressions, are presented and discussed in this volume. Consistent with the hypothesis outlined in this book, the results of the four studies show that dyslexics underperformed in comparison to age-matched controls and even to younger children in tasks requiring good phonological and processing abilities.

About this title

About the Author

Maria Vender is a Postdoc Researcher and Adjunct Professor at the University of Verona. Her research interests concern the investigation of the linguistic and cognitive deficits in learning and language disabilities, focusing on the relationship between dyslexia, bilingualism and foreign language learning.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034320647
• ISBN 13: 9783034320641
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356