Language Development

Name: Language Development | The lifespan perspective
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The lifespan perspective

Annette Gerstenberg Anja Voeste(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 22. Juli 2015

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Language Development
Editorial page
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
List of abbreviations
Investigating the lifespan perspective
1. Introduction
2. Basic problems and questions
2.1 Age and lifespan
2.2 Age, lifespan, and language
3. Problems and questions - and the papers
3.1 The linguistic lifespan: Patterns and configurations
3.2 The linguistic lifespan: Determinants and contexts
References
Disassociating the effects of age from phonetic change
1. Introduction
2. Data
2.1 Speaker
2.2 Materials
3. General method
4. Previous results and conclusions
4.1 Results of Reubold, Harrington & Kleber (2010)
4.2 Conclusions from Reubold, Harrington & Kleber (2010)
4.3 Informal descriptive analysis of phonetic changes
5. Aims of the current study
5.1 Age-related changes
5.2 Phonetic changes
6. Experiment I
6.1 Method
6.2 Results
6.3 Discussion
7. Experiment II
7.1 Method
7.2 Results
7.3 Discussion
8. Experiment III
8.1 Method
8.2 Results
8.3 Discussion
9. Summary and conclusions
References
Phonological variation in real time
1. Adult linguistic stability and apparent time
2. Data source and speakers
3. Variable and general patterns
4. Individual results
5. Discussion and conclusions
References
Language production in late life
1. Introduction
2. Aging and neurological function
2.1 Word finding
2.2 Working memory, executive functions, and language production
2.2.1 Ceiling on production
2.2.2 Dual-tasking
2.2.3 Aging and social interactions
2.2.4 Elderspeak
2.2.5 Off-target verbosity
3. Conclusions
References
Vocabulary and dementia in six novelists
1. Language and dementia
2. Agatha Christie
3. Six writers
4. Iris Murdoch
5. Enid Blyton
6. Ross Macdonald
7. Frank Baum, R.A. Freeman, and James Hilton
8. Conclusions
References
Appendix A: Novels analyzed
1. Frank Baum
2. R.A. Freeman
3. James Hilton
4. Enid Blyton
5. Ross Macdonald
6. Iris Murdoch
Appendix B
1. Blyton: The opening of Five are Together Again
2. Macdonald: The opening of Winnipeg, 1929
3. Murdoch: The close of Jackson's Dilemma
A sociolinguistic perspective on vocabulary richness in a seven-year comparison of French-speaking elderly
1. Lifespan and the lexicon
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Vocabulary in old age
1.3 Language change
2. Lexical richness
2.1 Types
2.2 Growth rates
2.3 Fillers
3. Analysis
3.1 Data
3.2 Methodological remarks
3.3 Analysis
3.3.1 Types (V)
3.3.2 Growth rate
3.3.3 Parts of speech: Fillers
4. Discussion
5. Conclusion
References
Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English
1. Introduction
2. Generational and lifespan changes
3. Linguistic variables
4. Data and method
4.1 Principles of data retrieval
4.2 Estimating progressive and conservative individuals
5. Results of the analysis
5.1 Overall findings
5.2 The (you) variable
6. Discussion
7. Conclusion
References
Lifespan and linguistic awareness
1. Introduction
2. Language and lifespan in Italian literature
3. Significance of the 18th-century autobiography for the development of linguistic awareness
4. Lifespan as a linguistic adventure: The Life of Vittorio Alfieri
5. The linguistic education of the writer as a literary topos
6. Dialects and foreign languages
7. In lieu of a conclusion
References
Tired mind or tired hand?
1. The correspondents and their background
2. Syntactic complexity and lexical richness
3. The loss of graphomotoric abilities
4. Semantic text analysis
4.1 Cognitive processes
4.2 Time orientation
4.3 Social references
5. Conclusions
References
Kriegsausbruch, Kriegs Ausbruch, KriegsAusbruch
1. Introduction
2. Basis of analysis
2.1 Corpus
2.2 General features
3. Endogenous and exogenous factors of language variation
3.1 The development of compound spelling, separate spelling and hyphenation
3.2 Hypotheses about factors which promote and hinder spelling variation
3.3 Exogenous factors which increase variation
3.3.1 The increase of variation via language contact and multilingualism
3.3.2 Variation in nature of the text
4. Classification of word formation
5. Evaluation of Thomas Mann's writing
5.1 Structural complexity of compounds
5.2 Lexical-semantic characteristics
5.2.1 Separate spelling, compound spelling and hyphenation in the case of hybrid formations
5.2.2 Compound spelling, separate spelling and hyphenation of compounds with a name, a clipping or an abbreviation
5.2.3 A changed writing routine - a new style for Mann's old age?
6. Evaluation of Harry Graf Kessler's writings
6.1 Standardized writing in 1892/1893
6.2 Lexical-semantic particularities: Separate spelling in the military lexis?
6.3 Separate spellings and their possible causes
6.3.1 Separate spellings linked to names, words of foreign origin and political communication
6.3.2 Separate spelling used for highlighting?
7. Further discussion
References
Index

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