Annual Review of Applied Linguistics

Table of Contents - Volume 10 - 1989  

Language in Society

Language and Aging

Susan Kemper and Cheryl Anagnopoulos

In the late 1970s Gillian Cohen surveyed research on the effects of aging on language and concluded that “geriatric psycholinguistics is virtually an unexplored territory” (1979:412). In the decade since she reached this conclusion, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, speech-language pathologists, and cognitive scientists have begun to explore this territory and to map a wide range of age-related changes to language.