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Nikolaev, Alexandre; Higby, Eve; Hyun, JungMoon; Lehtonen, Minna; Ashaie, Sameer; Hallikainen, Merja; Hänninen, Tuomo; Soininen, Hilkka – Cognitive Science, 2020
While cognitive changes in aging and neurodegenerative disease have been widely studied, language changes in these populations are less well understood. Inflecting novel words in a language with complex inflectional paradigms provides a good opportunity to observe how language processes change in normal and abnormal aging. Studies of language…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Older Adults, Finno Ugric Languages, Cognitive Ability
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Räsänen, Sanna H. M.; Ambridge, Ben; Pine, Julian M. – Cognitive Science, 2016
Many generativist accounts (e.g., Wexler, 1998) argue for very early knowledge of inflection on the basis of very low rates of person/number marking errors in young children's speech. However, studies of Spanish (Aguado-Orea & Pine, 2015) and Brazilian Portuguese (Rubino & Pine, 1998) have revealed that these low overall error rates…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Verbs, Morphology (Languages), Finno Ugric Languages