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Sherman, Janet Cohen; Henderson, Charles R.; Flynn, Suzanne; Gair, James W.; Lust, Barbara – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This research investigated the nature of cognitive decline in prodromal Alzheimer's disease (AD), particularly in mild cognitive impairment, amnestic type (aMCI). We assessed language in aMCI as compared with healthy aging (HA) and healthy young (HY) with new psycholinguistic assessment of complex sentences, and we tested the degree to…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Psycholinguistics, Phrase Structure, Alzheimers Disease
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Kedar, Yarden; Casasola, Marianella; Lust, Barbara; Parmet, Yisrael – Language Learning and Development, 2017
We tested 12- and 18-month-old English-learning infants on a preferential-looking task which contrasted grammatically correct sentences using the determiner "the" vs. three ungrammatical conditions in which "the" was substituted by another English function word, a nonsense word, or omitted. Our design involved strict controls…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Preferences