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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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The writing of the manuscript and the research reported in it were primarily supported by NIH grant AG10496. Support was also obtained from grants DC00081, NS27894, AFOSR91-225, and AG04517 and from the Research Service of The Department of Veterans Affairs. We are very grateful to Tracy Love, Catherine Stern, Margaret O'Grady, and Merri Rosen for their help.
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Zurif, E., Swinney, D., Prather, P. et al. The allocation of memory resources during sentence comprehension: Evidence from the elderly. J Psycholinguist Res 24, 165–182 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02145354
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