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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gerstenberg, Annette, editor.

Voeste, Anja, editor.

Series:

Impact, studies in language and society ; 37.

Impact: Studies in language and society, 1385-7908 ; volume 37

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition--Study and teaching.

Language acquisition.

Language and languages--Variation.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Study and teaching.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2015]

Contents:

1 List of abbreviations p. vii

2 Investigating the lifespan perspective p. 1 / Annette Gerstenberg; Anja Voeste

3 Disassociating the effects of age from phonetic change p. 9 / Ulrich Reubold; Jonathan Harrington

4 Phonological variation in real time p. 39 / David Bowie

5 Language production in late life p. 59 / Susan Kemper

6 Vocabulary and dementia in six novelists p. 77 / Ian Lancashire

7 A sociolinguistic perspective on vocabulary richness in a seven-year comparison of older adults p. 109 / Annette Gerstenberg

8 Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English p. 129 / Terttu Nevalainen

9 Lifespan and linguistic awareness p. 147 / Lorenzo Tomasin

10 Tired mind or tired hand? p. 167 / Anja Voeste

11 Kriegsausbruch, Kriegs Ausbruch, KriegsAusbruch p. 189 / Britt-Marie Schuster

12 Index p. 231.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Language development

ISBN:

9789027218797

902721879X

OCLC:

900306665