Better-educated adults scored higher on WAIS vocabulary, produced longer utterances, and used more right-branching clauses¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Education correlated with WAIS vocabulary scores, utterance length, and right-branching clause use across the language samples. → Kemper 1989

Evidence¶

Kemper 1989¶

Kemper, S., Kynette, D., Rash, S., O'Brien, K., & Sprott, R. (1989). Life-span changes to adults' language: Effects of memory and genre. Applied Psycholinguistics, 10, 49-66. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0142716400008419

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Correlational analysis relating education to language-sample measures and WAIS scores in the young and elderly adult samples. The article reports that "better-educated adults scored higher on the WAIS vocabulary test, produced longer utterances, and used more right-branching clauses."

"better-educated adults scored higher on the WAIS vocabulary test, produced longer utterances, and used more right-branching clauses"

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Elderly adults show an overall decrement in the complexity of oral and written statements attributable to an age-related loss of left-branching clauses across all three language samples — related
• Adults with greater memory capacity, measured by WAIS Digits Backward, produced more complex utterances and used more right- and left-branching clauses — related