Age-related impairments in the revision of syntactic misanalyses: Effects of prosody

Language and Speech

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-99

  Titone, Debra A ^a   Koh, Christine K ^b   Kjelgaard, Margaret M ^d   Bruce, Stephanie ^d   Speer, Shari R ^c   Wingfield, Arthur ^d  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Prosody; Syntactic ambiguity resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747094033     PISSN: 00238309     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/00238309060490010501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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