Adult Age Differences in On-line Sentence Processing of Korean Relative Clauses
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The goal of this study was to investigate age-related differences in processing relative clause sentences, using a self-paced reading paradigm. In this study, we used four types of Korean relative clauses (RCs): two types of subject RCs (SS and OS) and two types of object RCs (SO and OO). The results showed that compared with younger adults, older adults in general had much longer reading times, longer response times, and low accuracy in processing all types of relative clause sentences. Second, the results further showed that older adults had more difficulty in processing the OS-type and the OO-type RCs, which involved a garden-path effect, than the SS-type and SO-type RCs. These findings are consistent with the claim that older adults have greater difficulty processing syntactically complicated or ambiguous sentences. Therefore, we concluded that older adults’ greater difficulty in processing RCs was related with reduced cognitive resources
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The goal of this study was to investigate age-related differences in processing relative clause sentences, using a self-paced reading paradigm. In this study, we used four types of Korean relative clauses (RCs): two types of subject RCs (SS and OS) and two types of object RCs (SO and OO). The results showed that compared with younger adults, older adults in general had much longer reading times, longer response times, and low accuracy in processing all types of relative clause sentences. Second, the results further showed that older adults had more difficulty in processing the OS-type and the OO-type RCs, which involved a garden-path effect, than the SS-type and SO-type RCs. These findings are consistent with the claim that older adults have greater difficulty processing syntactically complicated or ambiguous sentences. Therefore, we concluded that older adults’ greater difficulty in processing RCs was related with reduced cognitive resources
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