Language and aging in multilingual contexts

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: De Bot, Kees
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Makoni, Sinfree
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Ltd., c2005.
Series:Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 53.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: language, aging and multilingualism
  • Language and aging, a dynamic perspective
  • Language and communication with the elderly
  • Language use and language skills in the healthy and pathological aging
  • Resources in language and aging
  • Multilingualism, aging and dementia
  • Bilingual aging in older African-Americans
  • The effect of age and education on narrative complexity in older Chinese in the USA / Sinfree Makoni with Hwei-Bing-Lin & Robert Schrauf
  • Language in an epidemiological study: the North Manhattan aging study in New York City
  • Old and new perspectives on language and aging.