Publications

Publication details [#27730]

Kemper, Susan, Dixie D. Vandeputte, Karla Rice, Him Cheung and Iulia Gubarchuk. 1995. Speech adjustments to aging during a referential communication task. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 14 (1/2) : 40–59.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | old age | simplification | speech modification

Place, Publisher

Sage Periodical Press

ISBN

0261-927X

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This study examines the effectiveness of younger adults' speech adjustments when addressing older listeners, a speech register sometimes referred to as elderspeak.