Phonological Processes and Brain Mechanisms reviews selective neurolinguistic research relating brain structures to phonology. The studies in the volume report on a number of timely and important topics, such as a neuronal model for processing segmental phonology, the role of the thalamus and basal ganglia in language processing, and oral reading in dyslexia. Increasingly, phonology is considered a cognitive module whose brain correlates may be independently investigated. Given the modular nature of the phonological system and its direct linkage with peripheral components of the nervous system, research on phonology and the brain will undoubtedly flourish in the future. The chapters in this volume give substance to this future.

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Contents: The Neurogenesis of Phonology.- Subcortical Language Mechanisms: Window on a New Frontier.- Afferent Motor Aphasia and Conduction Aphasia.- Phonological Production Deficits in Aphasia.- Accounts of Oral Reading in Deep Dyslexia.- Author Index.- Subject Index.