First-language decline in healthy aging: Implications for attrition in bilingualism

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-52

  Goral, Mira ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Bilingualism; Language attrition; Lexical retrieval; Word production

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0346245478     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0911-6044(03)00052-6     Document Type: Article

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