Hardy, Sophie M., Segaert, Katrien and Wheeldon, Linda (2021) Age-related effects on lexical, but not syntactic, processes during sentence production. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 37 (1). pp. 120-134. doi:10.1080/23273798.2021.1948081 ISSN 2327-3801.
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Abstract
We investigated the effect of healthy ageing on the lexical and syntactic processes involved in sentence production. Young and older adults completed a semantic interference sentence production task: we manipulated whether the target picture and distractor word were semantically related or unrelated and whether they fell within the same phrase (“the watch and the clock/hippo move apart”) or different phrases (“the watch moves above the clock/hippo”). Both age groups were slower to initiate sentences containing a larger, compared to a smaller, initial phrase, indicating a similar phrasal scope of advanced planning. However, older adults displayed significantly larger semantic interference effects (slower to initiate sentences when the target picture and distractor word were related) than young adults, indicating an age-related increase in lexical competition. Thus, while syntactic planning is preserved with age, older speakers encounter problems managing the temporal co-activation of competing lexical items during sentence production.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics Q Science > QP Physiology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology |
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Aging -- Physiological aspects, Speech -- Physiological aspects, Grammar, Comparative and general -- Sentences, Language and languages -- Physiological aspects, Language acquisition -- Age factors, Cognitive neuroscience , Cognitive psychology |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Language, Cognition and Neuroscience |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 2327-3801 |
| Official Date: | 2021 |
| Dates: | Date Event 2021 Published 30 June 2021 Available 19 June 2021 Accepted |
| Volume: | 37 |
| Number: | 1 |
| Page Range: | pp. 120-134 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/23273798.2021.1948081 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons open licence) |
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 February 2022 |
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 4 February 2022 |
| RIOXX Funder/Project Grant: | Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID |
| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/156491/ |
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