Language development : the lifespan perspective / Edited by Annette Gerstenberg, Free University Berlin ; Anja Voeste, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen.

Contributor(s): Gerstenberg, Annette [editor.] | Voeste, Anja [editor.]
Language: English Series: Impact: Studies in language and society, Volume 37Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789027268662 (pdf)Subject(s): Language acquisition -- Study and teaching | Language and languages -- Variation | Language and languages -- Study and teaching | Second language acquisitionGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 408.4 LOC classification: P118.15Online resources: Full text available at ProQuest Ebook Central Click here to view
Contents:
Table of Contents List of abbreviations vii ? viii Investigating the lifespan perspective Annette Gerstenberg and Anja Voeste 1 ? 8 Disassociating the effects of age from phonetic change: A longitudinal study of formant frequencies Ulrich Reubold and Jonathan Harrington 9 ? 38 Phonological variation in real time: Patterns of adult linguistic stability and change David Bowie 39 ? 58 Language production in late life Susan Kemper 59 ? 76 Vocabulary and dementia in six novelists Ian Lancashire 77 ? 108 A sociolinguistic perspective on vocabulary richness in a seven-year comparison of older adults Annette Gerstenberg 109 ? 128 Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English Terttu Nevalainen 129 ? 146 Lifespan and linguistic awareness: The case of 18th-century Italian autobiographers Lorenzo Tomasin 147 ? 166 Tired mind or tired hand?: Linguistic changes in the private letters of a Baltic German nobleman Anja Voeste 167 ? 188 Kriegsausbruch, Kriegs Ausbruch, KriegsAusbruch: On the possible connection between linguistic variation and age, based on personal journals from 1892 to 1944 Britt-Marie Schuster 189 ? 230 Index 231 ? 234
Summary: Language Development: The lifespan perspective generates insights into the central issues of age-dependent language change, focusing especially on the middle and later stages of life. The contributors exploit contemporary and historical longitudinal data, adopting psycholinguistic, corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches. Linguistic changes are discussed against the background of cognitive, somatic and social factors. Bringing the resulting contributions together, the volume aims to resume the discussion of contradictions between the models of change and constancy over an individual?s lifespan that have not been sufficiently resolved to date. The volume is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary reference resource for those conducting research on language development and the aging process and as a supplementary course book on language variability and change.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents
List of abbreviations

vii ? viii
Investigating the lifespan perspective
Annette Gerstenberg and Anja Voeste

1 ? 8
Disassociating the effects of age from phonetic change: A longitudinal study of formant frequencies
Ulrich Reubold and Jonathan Harrington

9 ? 38
Phonological variation in real time: Patterns of adult linguistic stability and change
David Bowie

39 ? 58
Language production in late life
Susan Kemper

59 ? 76
Vocabulary and dementia in six novelists
Ian Lancashire

77 ? 108
A sociolinguistic perspective on vocabulary richness in a seven-year comparison of older adults
Annette Gerstenberg

109 ? 128
Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English
Terttu Nevalainen

129 ? 146
Lifespan and linguistic awareness: The case of 18th-century Italian autobiographers
Lorenzo Tomasin

147 ? 166
Tired mind or tired hand?: Linguistic changes in the private letters of a Baltic German nobleman
Anja Voeste

167 ? 188
Kriegsausbruch, Kriegs Ausbruch, KriegsAusbruch: On the possible connection between linguistic variation and age, based on personal journals from 1892 to 1944
Britt-Marie Schuster

189 ? 230
Index

231 ? 234

Language Development: The lifespan perspective generates insights into the central issues of age-dependent language change, focusing especially on the middle and later stages of life. The contributors exploit contemporary and historical longitudinal data, adopting psycholinguistic, corpus linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches. Linguistic changes are discussed against the background of cognitive, somatic and social factors. Bringing the resulting contributions together, the volume aims to resume the discussion of contradictions between the models of change and constancy over an individual?s lifespan that have not been sufficiently resolved to date. The volume is intended to serve as an interdisciplinary reference resource for those conducting research on language development and the aging process and as a supplementary course book on language variability and change.

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