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De Bot, Kees.

Language and aging in multilingual contexts [electronic resource] / Kees de Bot and Sinfree Makoni. - Clevedon ; Buffalo : Multilingual Matters Ltd., c2005. - vi, 162 p. - Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 53 . - Bilingual education and bilingualism ; 53. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: language, aging and multilingualism -- Language and aging, a dynamic perspective -- Language and communication with the elderly -- Language use and language skills in the healthy and pathological aging -- Resources in language and aging -- Multilingualism, aging and dementia -- Bilingual aging in older African-Americans -- The effect of age and education on narrative complexity in older Chinese in the USA / Language in an epidemiological study: the North Manhattan aging study in New York City -- Old and new perspectives on language and aging. Sinfree Makoni with Hwei-Bing-Lin & Robert Schrauf --


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Multilingualism.
Aging.

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: P115 / .D4 2005eb

Dewey Class. No.: 306.44/6