Publications
Publication details [#14646]
Kemper, Susan, Andrea Finter-Urczyk, Patrice Ferrell, Tamara Harden and Catherine Billington. 1998. Using Elderspeak With Older Adults. Discourse Processes 25 (1) : 55–73. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Lawrence Erlbaum
ISBN
0163-853X
Annotation
A referential communication task was used to explore young adults' practice effects on elderspeak. It was found that young adults, when interacting with older adults, modify their speech in terms of information content, but not information delivery.