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Direct linkAltmann, Lori J. P.; Kemper, Susan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
The current study examines whether young and older adults have similar preferences for animate-subject and active sentences, and for using the order of activation of a verb's arguments to determine sentence structure. Ninety-six participants produced sentences in response to three-word stimuli that included a verb and two nouns differing in…
Descriptors: Verbs, Older Adults, Young Adults, Nouns
Peer reviewedKemper, Susan; Catlin, Jack – Language and Speech, 1979
Two experiments offer clear support for an interactive view of sentence comprehension; semantic factors do interact with syntactic factors. (RL)
Descriptors: Language Processing, Reading Comprehension, Reading Research, Research
Peer reviewedCheung, Hintat; Kemper, Susan – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1992
Evaluation of the adequacy of 11 metrics for measuring linguistic complexity of language samples obtained from 60 to 90 year olds indicated that, although most of the metrics adequately accounted for age-group and individual differences in complexity, the amount and type of embedding proved to predict how easily sentences are understood and how…
Descriptors: Age Differences, English, Language Processing, Older Adults
