Not may not be too difficult: The effects of negation on older adults' sentence comprehension

Educational Gerontology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 308-322

  Margolin, Sara J ^a,b   Abrams, Lise ^a  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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EID: 61349198148     PISSN: 03601277     EISSN: 15210472     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03601270802505624     Document Type: Article

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