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Language and Aging

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 November 2008

Susan Kemper  and
Cheryl Anagnopoulos
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In the late 1970s Gillian Cohen surveyed research on the effects of aging on language and concluded that “geriatric psycholinguistics is virtually an unexplored territory” (1979:412). In the decade since she reached this conclusion, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, speech-language pathologists, and cognitive scientists have begun to explore this territory and to map a wide range of age-related changes to language.

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Language in Society
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 10 , March 1989 , pp. 37 - 50
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989

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