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Peer reviewedKemper, Susan; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1989
Comparison of oral and written language samples collected from young and elderly adults revealed an age-related decrease in language complexity. Better-educated subjects had higher vocabulary test scores and produced longer utterances. Subjects with greater memory capacity produced more complex utterances and used more right- and left-branching…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Discourse Analysis, Educational Attainment, Language Styles
