Facilitating older adults' performance on a referential communication task through speech accommodations

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-55

  Kemper, Susan ^a   Othick, Meghan ^a   Warren, Jennifer ^a   Gubarchuk, Julia ^a   Gerhing, Hope ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SPEECH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0029857182     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825589608256611     Document Type: Article

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