THE ALLOCATION OF MEMORY RESOURCES DURING SENTENCE COMPREHENSION - EVIDENCE FROM THE ELDERLY

被引:73
作者
ZURIF, E
SWINNEY, D
PRATHER, P
WINGFIELD, A
BROWNELL, H
机构
[1] BRANDEIS UNIV,DEPT PSYCHOL,WALTHAM,MA 02254
[2] BOSTON UNIV,SCH MED,DEPT NEUROL,APHASIA RES CTR,BOSTON,MA 02118
[3] UNIV CALIF SAN DIEGO,DEPT PSYCHOL,SAN DIEGO,CA
[4] BOSTON DVA MED CTR,PSYCHOL SERV,BOSTON,MA
[5] BOSTON COLL,DEPT PSYCHOL,BOSTON,MA
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D O I
10.1007/BF02145354
中图分类号
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要
Two experiments were carried out to examine the ability of elderly subjects to establish syntactically governed dependency relations during the course of sentence comprehension. The findings reveal the manner in which memory constraints operate during syntactic processing.
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页码:165 / 182
页数:18
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