Hardy Sophie M, Messenger Katherine, Maylor Elizabeth A
Department of Psychology, University of Warwick.
Psychol Aging. 2017 Sep;32(6):588-596. doi: 10.1037/pag0000180.
Young adults can be primed to reuse a syntactic structure across otherwise unrelated utterances but it is not known whether this phenomenon exists in older adults. In a dialogue task, young and older adults described transitive verb target pictures after hearing active or passive sentences. Both groups were more likely to produce a passive sentence following a passive prime than following an active prime (indicating syntactic priming), and this effect increased when the prime and target involved the same verb (indicating lexical boost). These effects were statistically equivalent in young and older adults, suggesting that the syntactic representations underlying sentence production are unaffected by normal aging. (PsycINFO Database Record
年轻人可以被引导在不相关的话语中重复使用一种句法结构，但尚不清楚这种现象是否存在于老年人中。在一项对话任务中，年轻人和老年人在听到主动句或被动句后描述及物动词目标图片。与主动启动句相比，两组在被动启动句后更有可能生成被动句（表明句法启动），并且当启动句和目标句涉及相同动词时，这种效应会增强（表明词汇促进）。年轻人和老年人的这些效应在统计学上是等效的，这表明句子生成背后的句法表征不受正常衰老的影响。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
