TY  - JOUR
A1  - Malyutina, Svetlana
A1  - Laurinavichyute, Anna
A1  - Terekhina, Maria
A1  - Lapin, Yevgeniy
T1  - No evidence for strategic nature of age-related slowing in sentence processing
JF  - Psychology and aging
N2  - Older adults demonstrate a slower speed of linguistic processing, including sentence processing. In nonlinguistic cognitive domains such as memory, research suggests that age-related slowing of processing speed may be a strategy adopted in order to avoid potential error and/or to spare “cognitive resources.” So far, very few studies have tested whether older adults’ slower processing speed in the linguistic domain has a strategic nature as well. To fill this gap, we tested whether older adults can maintain language processing accuracy when a faster processing speed is enforced externally. Specifically, we compared sentence comprehension accuracy in younger and older adults when sentences were presented at the participant’s median self-paced reading speed versus twice as fast. We hypothesized that an external speed increase will cause a smaller accuracy decline in older than younger adults because older adults tend to adopt self-paced processing speeds “further away” from their performance limits. The hypothesis was not confirmed: The decline in accuracy due to faster presentation did not differ by age group. Thus, we found no evidence for strategic nature of age-related slowing of sentence processing. On the basis of our experimental design, we suggest that the age-related slowing of sentence processing is caused not only by motor slowdown, but also by a slowdown in cognitive processing
KW  - aging
KW  - processing speed
KW  - sentence comprehension
KW  - language and aging
KW  - processing strategies
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1037/pag0000302
SN  - 0882-7974
SN  - 1939-1498
VL  - 33
IS  - 7
SP  - 1045
EP  - 1059
PB  - American Psychological Association
CY  - Washington
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gerstenberg, Annette
A1  - Lindholm, Camilla
T1  - Language and aging research
BT  - new insights and perspectives
JF  - Linguistics vanguard
N2  - Our introduction to the special collection gives an overview of the research projects which were originally presented at the third CLARe network conference. We group the research under four cross-sectional topics that unite the different contributions: the data used in the research, the theoretical frameworks, the languages and varieties which are represented and the situational contexts which are examined. These projects represent the current state of research in this field and allows the reader to orient themselves within this diverse field but also leaves many questions open and provides impetus for future lines of research. The interaction and collaboration between diverse disciplines is the central aspect which unites all contributions to the special collection.
KW  - language and aging
KW  - lifespan
KW  - health communication
KW  - language change
KW  - interactional linguistics
KW  - conversation analysis
KW  - corpus linguistics
KW  - psycholinguistics
KW  - sociolinguistics
KW  - computational linguistics
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1515/lingvan-2019-0025
SN  - 2199-174X
VL  - 5
IS  - s2
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
ER  -