Processing of Center-Embedded and Right-Branching Relative Clause Sentences by Normal Elderly Individuals.

Baum, Shari R.

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Publication Date: 1993

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Processing of Center-Embedded and Right-Branching Relative Clause Sentences by Normal Elderly Individuals.

Baum, Shari R.

Applied Psycholinguistics, v14 n1 p75-88 Mar 1993

Two experiments were conducted to explore processing of relative clause structures by normal elderly adults. Four groups of subjects (aged 20-29 years, 60-69 years, 70-79 years, and 80-89 years) participated in a lexical decision task and a sentence repetition task. (19 references) (VWL)

Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Error Analysis (Language), Language Processing, Language Research, Older Adults, Syntax, Tape Recordings, Task Analysis, Vocabulary

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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