Age preservation of the syntactic processor in production

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 541-566

  Davidson, Douglas J ^a   Zacks, Rose T ^b   Ferreira, Fernanda ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Datives; Grammatical encoding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 1542540824     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025402517111     Document Type: Article

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