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Frills, Furbelows and Activated Memory: Syntactically Optional Elements in the Spontaneous Language Production of Bilingual Speakers
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Fehringer, Carol; Fry, Christina – Language Sciences, 2007
Previous studies have shown a correlation between working memory (WM) and syntactic complexity (variously defined) in language comprehension. The present study investigates this relationship in spontaneous language production, proposing a novel metric, informed by language development and disorders, where complexity is construed in terms of those…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Speech, Short Term Memory, Neuropsychology