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Waters, G., Caplan, D. (2002). Verbal Working Memory Capacity and On-Line Sentence Processing Efficiency in the Elderly. 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_5
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