Age-related impairments in the revision of syntactic misanalyses: effects of prosody
| Autor: | Arthur Wingfield, Christine K. Koh, Stephanie Bruce, Debra Titone, Margaret M. Kjelgaard, Shari R. Speer |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Linguistics and Language Aging Phrase Sociology and Political Science Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject Short-term memory 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Psycholinguistics 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing 0302 clinical medicine Reaction Time Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Prosody media_common Aged Aged 80 and over Working memory 05 social sciences 030229 sport sciences General Medicine Ambiguity Syntax Linguistics Semantics Comprehension Mental Recall Speech Perception Psychology |
| Zdroj: | Language and speech. 49(Pt 1) |
| ISSN: | 0023-8309 |
| Popis: | Two experiments examined whether young and older adults differ in comprehending sentences that contain temporary syntactic closure ambiguities. Experiment 1 examined age-related differences using the Auditory Moving Window (AMW) task, in which sentences were presented in a segment-by-segment self-paced fashion. Experiment 2 examined age-related differences using a sentence recall task, in which sentences were presented in their entirety. Sentences were constructed to have cooperating prosody (i.e., where prosody is consistent with the syntactic boundaries), baseline prosody (i.e., where prosody is ambiguous in the syntactically ambiguous region), and conflicting prosody (i.e., where cross-splicing relocates the prosodic phrase break at a misleading point in syntactic structure). The results showed that both young and older adults make comparable use of prosodic information to interpret temporary syntactic ambiguities, although younger adults may make use of this information more quickly than older adults. In addition, older adults appeared to be less able than young adults to revise initial syntactic misinterpretations caused by conflicting prosodic information. These results are interpreted with respect to age-related impairments in the allocation of working memory resources and inefficient inhibitory function during spoken language processing. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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