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Peer reviewedKemper, Susan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1986
When elderly (70-89 years) and younger (30-49 years) adults imitated complex sentences, younger adults were more able to imitate accurately and correctly paraphrase sentences regardless of length, position, or type of embedded clause. Elderly adults were unable to imitate or paraphrase correctly long constructions, suggesting an age-related…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Aging (Individuals), Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedRosenberg, Sheldon; Abbeduto, Leonard – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1987
Samples of the communicative behavior of a group of mildly mentally retarded adults were examined for indications of mature linguistic competence (specifically, grammatical morpheme and complex sentence use).Findings confirmed the expectation that the eventual mastery of these aspects of linguistic competence in higher-level retarded individuals…
Descriptors: Adults, Communication Skills, Difficulty Level, Discourse Analysis
