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Maxfield, Nathan D.; Lyon, Justine M.; Silliman, Elaine R. – Brain and Language, 2009
Bailey and Ferreira (2003) hypothesized and reported behavioral evidence that disfluencies (filled and silent pauses) undesirably affect sentence processing when they appear before disambiguating verbs in Garden Path (GP) sentences. Disfluencies here cause the parser to "linger" on, and apparently accept as correct, an erroneous parse. Critically,…
Descriptors: Sentences, Verbs, Gardening, Cognitive Processes
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Griffin, Zenzi M.; Spieler, Daniel H. – Brain and Language, 2006
Research on adult age differences in language production has traditionally focused on either the production of single words or the properties of language samples. Older adults are more prone to word retrieval failures than are younger adults (e.g., Burke, MacKay, Worthley, & Wade, 1991). Older adults also tend to produce fewer ideas per utterance…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Language Processing, Adults, Age Differences