Language and Aging in Multilingual ContextsThis book discusses different aspects of language and aging. While both the language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued here that from a dynamical system perspective the two are closely interrelated. Projects on this topic in multilingual settings are also presented. |
Contents
Language Aging and Multilingualism | 1 |
A Dynamic Perspective | 5 |
Language and Communication with the Elderly | 16 |
Language Use and Language Skills in Healthy and Pathological Aging | 27 |
Resources in Language and Aging | 44 |
Multilingualism Aging and Dementia | 60 |
Bilingual Aging in Older AfricanAmericans | 93 |
The Effects of Age and Education on Narrative Complexity in Older Chinese in the USA Sinfree Makoni with HweiBin Lin and Robert Schrauf | 97 |
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36 months acculturation African-Americans age groups age-related aging research Alzheimer's disease aphasia aspects behavior bilingual category fluency changes chapter Chinese aging code-switching cognitive decline comprehension correlation cultural demented dementia Digit Span discourse discussed Dynamic Systems Dynamic Systems Theory elderspeak English ethnic ethno-racial groups factors focused impact individual interaction Kemper language and aging language attrition language development language production language proficiency language skills language system Latinos level of education lexemes lexical Lexical aspects linguistic memory capacity MMSE monolingual morpho-syntactic multilingualism narrative complexity neuropsychological NMAP nursing homes Obler older adults older African-Americans participants patients perception perspective phonological phonological loop problems psycholinguistic raters reported research on language research subjects scores second language semantic sentences social speakers specific speech speed of processing status storytelling subsystems syntactic syntactic complexity tasks tion types variables verbal and category verbal fluency younger
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