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Language development : the lifespan perspective /
This paper focuses on the writing of compound words in the private journals of Thomas Mann (1875-1955) and Harry Graf Kessler (1868-1937), * with special attention to their later years. It will be established that the percentage of closed compound words decreases with time while hyphenated compound...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Impact, studies in language and society ;
Volume 37. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Language Development; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; List of abbreviations ; Investigating the lifespan perspective; 1. Introduction; 2. Basic problems and questions; 2.1 Age and lifespan; 2.2 Age, lifespan, and language; 3. Problems and questions
- and the papers; 3.1 The linguistic lifespan: Patterns and configurations; 3.2 The linguistic lifespan: Determinants and contexts; References; Disassociating the effects of age from phonetic change; 1. Introduction; 2. Data; 2.1 Speaker; 2.2 Materials; 3. General method; 4. Previous results and conclusions.
- 4.1 Results of Reubold, Harrington & Kleber (2010)4.2 Conclusions from Reubold, Harrington & Kleber (2010); 4.3 Informal descriptive analysis of phonetic changes; 5. Aims of the current study; 5.1 Age-related changes; 5.2 Phonetic changes; 6. Experiment I; 6.1 Method; 6.2 Results; 6.3 Discussion; 7. Experiment II; 7.1 Method; 7.2 Results; 7.3 Discussion; 8. Experiment III; 8.1 Method; 8.2 Results; 8.3 Discussion; 9. Summary and conclusions; References; Phonological variation in real time; 1. Adult linguistic stability and apparent time; 2. Data source and speakers.
- 3. Variable and general patterns4. Individual results; 5. Discussion and conclusions; References; Language production in late life; 1. Introduction; 2. Aging and neurological function; 2.1 Word finding; 2.2 Working memory, executive functions, and language production; 2.2.1 Ceiling on production; 2.2.2 Dual-tasking; 2.2.3 Aging and social interactions; 2.2.4 Elderspeak; 2.2.5 Off-target verbosity; 3. Conclusions; References; Vocabulary and dementia in six novelists; 1. Language and dementia; 2. Agatha Christie; 3. Six writers; 4. Iris Murdoch; 5. Enid Blyton; 6. Ross Macdonald.
- 7. Frank Baum, R.A. Freeman, and James Hilton8. Conclusions; References; Appendix A: Novels analyzed; 1. Frank Baum; 2. R.A. Freeman; 3. James Hilton; 4. Enid Blyton; 5. Ross Macdonald; 6. Iris Murdoch; Appendix B; 1. Blyton: The opening of Five are Together Again; 2. Macdonald: The opening of Winnipeg, 1929; 3. Murdoch: The close of Jackson's Dilemma; A sociolinguistic perspective on vocabulary richness in a seven-year comparison of French-speaking elderly; 1. Lifespan and the lexicon; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Vocabulary in old age; 1.3 Language change; 2. Lexical richness; 2.1 Types.
- 2.2 Growth rates2.3 Fillers; 3. Analysis; 3.1 Data; 3.2 Methodological remarks; 3.3 Analysis; 3.3.1 Types (V); 3.3.2 Growth rate; 3.3.3 Parts of speech: Fillers; 4. Discussion; 5. Conclusion; References; Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English; 1. Introduction; 2. Generational and lifespan changes; 3. Linguistic variables; 4. Data and method; 4.1 Principles of data retrieval; 4.2 Estimating progressive and conservative individuals; 5. Results of the analysis; 5.1 Overall findings; 5.2 The (you) variable; 6. Discussion; 7. Conclusion; References.