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Age Effects on the Functional Nueroanatomy of Syntactic Processing in Sentence Comprehension

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Caplan, D., Waters, G. (2002). Age Effects on the Functional Nueroanatomy of Syntactic Processing in Sentence Comprehension. In: Kemper, S., Kliegl, R. (eds) Constraints on Language: Aging, Grammar, and Memory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46902-2_11

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