The processing of morphology in old age: Evidence from Hebrew

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1442-1451

  Kavé, Gitit ^a,b   Levy, Yonata ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aging; Hebrew; Morphology

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONSONANT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NORMAL HUMAN; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDENT; WORKING MEMORY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 33644820763     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/100)     Document Type: Article

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