Spoken language production in adults: Examining age-related differences in syntactic complexity.
The use of complex syntax in the spoken discourse of young, middle-aged, and older adults was examined. The purpose of the study was to determine if syntactic complexity would show an age-related decline. Language samples were elicited from healthy adults in their 20 s, 40 s, and 60 s ( n = 20 per g...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 28; no. 3; pp. 195 - 208 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2014
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