The influence of prosodic structure on the interpretation of temporary syntactic ambiguity by young and elderly listeners

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 187-207

  Kjelgaard, Margaret M ^a,b   Titone, Debra A ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032784459     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107399243986     Document Type: Article

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