The pressure to communicate efficiently continues to shape language use later in life

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• who: Madeleine Long from the DepartmentUniversity of of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, USA have published the research: The pressure to communicate efficiently continues to shape language use later in life, in the Journal: Scientific Reports Scientific Reports
• what: Given that a redundant description should only be used in contexts where it is helpful for the listener, the authors propose that a reactive mode of control involving attention switching would be particularly well-suited for the use of facilitatory redundancy. The authors investigated the nature and source of redundancy across the adult lifespan, treating . . .
  

   

  

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