The allocation of memory resources during sentence comprehension: evidence from the elderly.
Two experiments were carried out to examine the ability of elderly subjects to establish syntactically governed dependency relations during the course of sentence comprehension. The findings reveal the manner in which memory constraints operate during syntactic processing.
Zurif
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Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts 02254, USA.
Swinney
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Prather
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Wingfield
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Brownell
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D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013067:Speech Perception