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Life-span changes in syntactic complexity.

S Kemper

    Journal of Gerontology
    |May 1, 1987
    PubMed
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    Syntactic complexity in adults

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    Area of Science:

    • Linguistics
    • Psycholinguistics
    • Developmental Psychology

    Background:

    • Investigating age-related changes in language use provides insights into cognitive aging.
    • Personal diaries offer a rich source of longitudinal linguistic data.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To examine age-related changes in syntactic complexity in adults' written language.
    • To analyze specific linguistic features indicative of syntactic complexity over the lifespan.

    Main Methods:

    • Analysis of diary entries from longitudinal and cohort-sequential samples of adults.
    • Quantitative assessment of syntactic features including embeddings, phrases, sentence fragments, and sentence length (words and clauses).

    Main Results:

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  • A significant age-related decline in syntactic complexity was observed in adults' sentences.
  • Specific measures like sentence length and the use of complex structures decreased with age.

    • Conclusions:

    • Adults exhibit a decline in syntactic complexity as they age.
    • This finding contributes to understanding language processing and cognitive changes across the adult lifespan.