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dc.contributor.authorKemper, Susan
dc.date.accessioned2011-11-10T22:43:11Z
dc.date.available2011-11-10T22:43:11Z
dc.date.issued1986
dc.identifier.citationKemper, S. (1986). Imitation of complex grammatical constructions by elderly adults. Applied Psycholinguistics, 7, 277-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400007578
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/8344
dc.description.abstractElderly 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.
dc.description.sponsorshipBiomedical Research Support Grant
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Press
dc.titleImitation of complex grammatical constructions by elderly adults
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorKemper, Susan
kusw.kudepartmentPsychology
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0142716400007578
kusw.oaversionScholarly/refereed, publisher version
kusw.oapolicyThis item meets KU Open Access policy criteria.
dc.rights.accessrightsopenAccess


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