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Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Aging and Sentence Processing: The Role of Word Order and Semantic Plausibility.

Purpose: This cross-linguistic study investigates how healthy aging affects sentence comprehension across three typologically distinct languages--English (headinitial), Korean, and Japanese (both head-final). It explores how syntactic word order and semantic plausibility interact with aging and whet...

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Published in:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 69; no. 8; pp. 3872 - 3892
Main Authors: Sung, Jee Eun, DeDe, Gayle, Lee, Seunghun J., Park, Jimin
Format: Article
Published: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Aug2026
Subjects:
Attitudes toward aging
Task performance
Linguistics
Semantics
Active aging
Grammar
Research funding
Phonological awareness
Descriptive statistics
Thematic analysis
English language
Reaction time
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