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    Imitation of complex grammatical constructions by elderly adults

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    1986
    Author
    Kemper, Susan
    Publisher
    Cambridge University Press
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    Elderly adults (70 to 89 years) and young adults (30 to 49 years) were asked to imitate complex sentences involving embedded gerunds, w/z-clauses, r/ia/-clauses, and relative clauses. The young adults were able to imitate accurately or correctly paraphrase the sentences regardless of the length, position, or type of embedded clause. The elderly adults could accurately imitate or paraphrase short constructions. The elderly adults were unable to imitate or paraphrase correctly long constructions, especially those in which the embedded clause was sentence-initial. The pattern of results demonstrates an age-related decline in syntactic processing abilities due, perhaps, to the increased processing demands of the long or sentence-initial constructions.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/8344
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400007578
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    Kemper, S. (1986). Imitation of complex grammatical constructions by elderly adults. Applied Psycholinguistics, 7, 277-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400007578

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