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Changing Minds - How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging (Hardcover)
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Changing Minds - How Aging Affects Language and How Language Affects Aging (Hardcover)
Series: The MIT Press
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Why language ability remains resilient and how it shapes our lives.
We acquire our native language, seemingly without effort, in
infancy and early childhood. Language is our constant companion
throughout our lifetime, even as we age. Indeed, compared with
other aspects of cognition, language seems to be fairly resilient
through the process of aging. In Changing Minds, Roger Kreuz and
Richard Roberts examine how aging affects language-and how language
affects aging. Kreuz and Roberts report that what appear to be
changes in an older person's language ability are actually produced
by declines in such other cognitive processes as memory and
perception. Some language abilities, including vocabulary size and
writing ability, may even improve with age. And certain language
activities-including reading fiction and engaging in
conversation-may even help us live fuller and healthier lives.
Kreuz and Roberts explain the cognitive processes underlying our
language ability, exploring in particular how changes in these
processes lead to changes in listening, speaking, reading, and
writing. They consider, among other things, the inability to
produce a word that's on the tip of your tongue-and suggest that
the increasing incidence of this with age may be the result of a
surfeit of world knowledge. For example, older people can be better
storytellers, and (something to remember at a family reunion) their
perceived tendency toward off-topic verbosity may actually reflect
communicative goals.
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