ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2024
Coordinating Words and Sentences: Detecting Age-Related Changes in Language Production.
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- MEG state dynamics of sentence generation: evidence for a compensatory segmentation mechanism in healthy aging.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2026Article
- Eye-movement reveals word order effects on comparative sentences in older adults using a verb-final language.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Syntactic flexibility and lexical encoding in aging sentence production: an eye tracking study.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
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purposeThe purpose of this study was to examine whether older adults exhibit reduced abilities in coordinating lexical retrieval and syntactic formulation during sentence production and whether an individual's working memory capacity predicts age-related changes in sentence production.
methodA total of 124 Korean-speaking individuals (79 young and 45 older adults) completed a lexical priming sentence production task. The participants described a target picture (a dog biting a monkey) after reading either an agent (dog) or a theme (monkey) prime word. The proportion of passive sentences was used as the dependent variable.
resultsWhen the theme noun was primed, older adults produced fewer passive sentences than young adults. Working memory tasks significantly predicted individual differences in the sentence production of older adults.
conclusionsWith aging, the ability to efficiently formulate syntactic structures in coordination with varying lexical information declines. Among older adults, age-related changes in these sentence production processes are associated with reduced working memory. Our constrained language production task is sensitive to detecting aging effects.
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