#3300. Foreign-accented sentence comprehension is challenging for older adults: ERP evidence from semantic and grammar processing

October 2026publication date
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Linguistics and Language;
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous);
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
Cognitive Neuroscience;
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Abstract:
Research has shown that older adults have increased difficulty comprehending foreign-accented speech. As these studies have only used behavioral measures, we exploited the fine-grained temporal resolution to examine neural signatures of foreign- and native-accented sentence comprehension in older adults. Foreign- and native-accented sentences contained semantic or pronoun errors, or were semantically and grammatically correct. Older adults showed high comprehension accuracy of both foreign-accented and native-accented sentences. Hearing acuity and individual differences in language attitudes, cognitive and linguistic variables did not systematically correlate with language patterns. These findings suggest that older adults are ultimately engaging in foreign-accented sentence comprehension.
Keywords:
Aging; Foreign-accent; Grammar; Language comprehension; Semantics

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