The effects of age on the strategic use of pitch accents in memory for discourse: A processing-resource account

摘要: In two experiments, we investigated age-related changes in how prosodic pitch accents affect memory. Participants listened to recorded discourses that contained contrasts between pairs of items (e.g., one story contrasted British scientists with French and Malaysia Indonesia). The end each discourse referred item from pair; these references received a accent either denoted contrast (L + H* the ToBI system) or did not (H*). A contrastive on particular pair improved later recognition memory equally for young older adults. However, adults showed decreased if other (Experiment 1). Young low working performance also this penalty 2). These results suggest guide processing resources important information both younger but diminish less groups reduced resources, including