Constraints on Language: Aging, Grammar, and Memory

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kemper, Susan. (Editor), Kliegl, Reinhold. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2002.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Geriatrics.; Psycholinguistics.; Psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Psychology, general.; Cognitive Psychology.; Geriatrics/Gerontology.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Susan Kemper A debate about the role of working memory in language processing has become center-most in psycholinguistics (Caplan & Waters, in press; Just & Carpenter, 1992; Just, Carpenter, & Keller, 1996; Waters & Caplan, 1996). This debate concerns which aspects of language proces...

Table of Contents:

• Constraints on Language: Aging
• Language Production and Aging
• Working Memory and Spoken Language Comprehension: The Case for Age Stability in Conceptual Short-Term Memory
• Discourse Processing and Aging: Resource Allocation As a Limiting Factor
• Constraints on Language: Memory
• Limitations on Syntactic Processing
• Verbal Working Memory Capacity and On-Line Sentence Processing Efficiency in the Elderly
• Testing Age Invariance in Language Processes
• Constraints on Language: Grammar
• Processing Difficulty and Principles of Grammar
• Parsing and Memory
• Constraints on Language: Neuroscience
• Working with Limited Memory: Sentence Comprehension in AlzheimerỚ"s Disease
• Memory or Aging? ThatỚ"s the Question: An Electrophysiological Perspective on Language
• Age Effects on the Functional Nueroanatomy of Syntactic Processing in Sentence Comprehension.