Aspects of written language production over adult life.
Aspects of written language production over adult life.
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成年生活中书面语言产生的各个方面。
作者：
D. Bromley
通过对成年人的自我描述进行分析，探讨了年龄、性别、词汇、非语言智力和教育-职业状况对语言词汇和语法复杂性的影响。多变量分析表明，在控制了其他背景变量后，年龄对词汇多样性、句子复杂性、从属连词以及可能的句子长度都有显著影响。四个变量--词汇量、词长、长词和可读性--主要受词汇和教育-职业状况的影响。在描述的可读性方面，在所有年龄组中都观察到了出乎意料的微小但显著的性别差异。
Self-descriptions written by adults were analyzed to explore the effects of age, gender, vocabulary, nonverbal intelligence, and educational-occupational status on lexical aspects of language and grammatical complexity. Multivariate analyses indicated that, after controlling for other background variables, age had a significant effect on vocabulary diversity, sentence complexity, subordinating conjunctions, and possibly sentence length. Four variables--word output, word length, long words, and readability--were affected mainly by vocabulary and educational-occupational status. An unexpected and small but significant gender difference in the readability of the descriptions was observed across all age groups.