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Language and aging in multilingual contexts [electronic resource] / Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni.

By: De Bot, Kees.
Contributor(s): Makoni, Sinfree | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Bilingual education and bilingualism: 53.Publisher: Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Ltd., c2005Description: vi, 162 p. ; 21 cm.Subject(s): Multilingualism | AgingGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 306.44/6 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.