Narrative speech in aging: Quantity, information content, and cohesion

Brain and Language

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 423-434

  Juncos Rabadán, Onésimo ^a   Pereiro, Arturo X ^b   Rodríguez, María Soledad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALMERÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Cohesion; Education; Language; Loquacity; Narratives

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WRITING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COGNITION DISORDERS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VOCABULARY;

EID: 27844550321     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.04.001     Document Type: Article

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