Use of elderspeak by young and older adults to impaired and unimpaired listeners

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 43-55

  Kemper, Susan ^a   Ferrell, Patrice ^a   Harden, Tamara ^a   Finter Urczyk, Andrea ^a   Billington, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

EID: 0031697541     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.5.1.43.22     Document Type: Article

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