The effects of age, education, and ethnicity on verbal fluency
The effects of age, education, and ethnicity on verbal fluency
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DOI：
10.1017/s1355617798466013
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发表时间：
1998-11-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Daviss, DS
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作者：
Kempler, D;Teng, EL;Daviss, DS
一组年龄在54岁到99岁之间的317名健康参与者完成了一项语言流利性任务。参与者包括中国人、西班牙裔和越南移民，以及说英语的白人和非洲裔美国人。他们被要求在1分钟内用自己的母语给尽可能多的动物起名字。结果表明，年轻人和受教育程度较高的人产生的动物名称更多。语言背景也是一个重要因素：越南语产生的动物名字最多，说西班牙语的人产生的动物名字最少。这两个组之间的夸张差异归因于这样一个事实，即越南动物的名字很短(主要是一个音节)，而西班牙动物的名字比本研究中的任何其他语言都长(每个单词2和3个音节)。最后，尽管不同民族给不同的动物起了不同的名字，而且他们使用的动物名字的多样性也不同，但这些因素并不影响总体的语言流利性表现。
A group of 317 healthy participants between 54 and 99 years of age performed a verbal fluency task. The participants included Chinese, Hispanic, and Vietnamese immigrants, as well as White and African American English speakers. They were given 1 min to name as many animals as possible in their native language. The results showed that more animal names were produced by younger people and those with more education. Language background was also an important factor: The Vietnamese produced the most animal names and the Spanish speakers produced the fewest. The exaggerated difference between these two groups is attributed to the fact that Vietnamese animal names an short (predominantly 1 syllable) while the Spanish animal names are longer than any other language in this study (2 and 3 syllables per word). Finally, although the ethnic groups named different animals, and appeared to vary in the variety of animal names they used, these factors did not affect overall verbal fluency performance.