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Age-related effects on lexical, but not syntactic, processes during sentence production

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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:
DateEvent
2021Published
30 June 2021Available
19 June 2021Accepted
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)
Date of first compliant deposit: 3 February 2022
Date of first compliant Open Access: 4 February 2022
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:
Project/Grant IDRIOXX Funder NameFunder ID
ES/J50001X/1[ESRC] Economic and Social Research Councilhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000269
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