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Direct linkAnema, Inge; Obler, Loraine K. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2012
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether hyphens that disambiguate phrasing in ambiguous sentences influence reading rate and reading comprehension for younger and older adults. Moreover, as working memory (WM) has been implicated in age-related changes in sentence comprehension for both auditory and written materials, we asked if it…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Older Adults, Punctuation, Phrase Structure
