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Aging and the Perception of Affective and Linguistic Prosody.

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Title: Aging and the Perception of Affective and Linguistic Prosody.
Authors: Martzoukou, Maria1 (AUTHOR) martzoukoumaria@yahoo.gr, Nasios, Grigorios1 (AUTHOR), Kosmidis, Mary H.2 (AUTHOR), Papadopoulou, Despina3 (AUTHOR)
Source: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. Oct2022, Vol. 51 Issue 5, p1001-1021. 21p.
Subject Terms: *Affect (Psychology), *Aging, Prosodic analysis (Linguistics), Socioemotional selectivity theory, Older people, Gender differences (Sociology)
Abstract: Investigations of affective prosodic processing have demonstrated a decline with aging. It is unclear, however, whether this decline affects all or specific emotions. Also, little is known about the ability of syntactic resolution ambiguity with the use of prosody in aging. Twenty older (age range = 70–75) and 20 younger adults (age range = 20–25) performed an affective (happiness, neutrality, sadness, surprise, fear, and anger) and a linguistic (subject/object ambiguities) prosody task. Relative to young participants, older participants faced difficulty decoding affective prosody, particularly negative emotions, and syntactic prosody, in particular the subject reading condition. A marginally positive correlation was found between the affective and syntactic prosody tasks in the group of older individuals, but no gender differences in either prosodic task. The findings of the affective prosody task are discussed under the prism of the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, whereas general parsing strategies can account for the preference for the object reading condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:Investigations of affective prosodic processing have demonstrated a decline with aging. It is unclear, however, whether this decline affects all or specific emotions. Also, little is known about the ability of syntactic resolution ambiguity with the use of prosody in aging. Twenty older (age range = 70–75) and 20 younger adults (age range = 20–25) performed an affective (happiness, neutrality, sadness, surprise, fear, and anger) and a linguistic (subject/object ambiguities) prosody task. Relative to young participants, older participants faced difficulty decoding affective prosody, particularly negative emotions, and syntactic prosody, in particular the subject reading condition. A marginally positive correlation was found between the affective and syntactic prosody tasks in the group of older individuals, but no gender differences in either prosodic task. The findings of the affective prosody task are discussed under the prism of the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory, whereas general parsing strategies can account for the preference for the object reading condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:00906905
DOI:10.1007/s10936-022-09875-7