Age differences in the effect of animacy on Mandarin sentence processing
Animate nouns are preferred for grammatical subjects, whereas inanimate nouns are preferred for grammatical objects. Animacy provides important semantic cues for sentence comprehension. However, how individuals’ ability to use this animacy cue changes with advancing age is still not clear. The curre...
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PeerJ Inc.
2019-02-01
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| Online Access: | https://peerj.com/articles/6437.pdf |