Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts

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Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts

Author	: Kees De Bot
File Size	: 43,5 Mb
Publisher	: Multilingual Matters
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 January 2005
ISBN	: 1853598402
Pages	: 172 pages

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Language and Aging in Multilingual Contexts by Kees De Bot Book PDF Summary

In this book different aspects of language and aging are discussed. While language spoken by and language spoken with elderly people have been treated as different areas of research, it is argued here that from a dynamical system perspective the two are closely interrelated. In addition to overviews of research on language and aging, a number of projects on this topic in multilingual settings are presented.

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