Effects of age, animacy and activation order on sentence production

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 21, Issue 1-3, 2006, Pages 322-354

  Altmann, Lori J P ^a,b   Kemper, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

EID: 33646432361     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0169096054400006     Document Type: Article

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