Examining interactions among working memory, aging, and linguistic constraints in sentence comprehension
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Hayes, Celina, "Examining interactions among working memory, aging, and linguistic constraints in sentence comprehension" (2007). Acknowledgements Many thanks to my advisor, Laura Gonnerman, and my committee members, Diane Hyland and Padraig O'Seaghdha for their valuable feedback and comments on this thesis. I would also like to thank the members of the Language Acquisition and Processing Lab for their help in collecting this data as well as the many Lehigh University alumni who volunteered to participate in this research.
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