Acta Linguistica Hungarica
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Volume 60: Issue 2
Narrative recall in the elderly
Content, fluency and speech errors in the narrative speech of young, young-old and old-old speakers
Author:
Judit Bóna Eötvös Loránd University Department of Phonetics Budapest Hungary

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Pages:
123–142
Online Publication Date:
27 Jun 2013
Publication Date:
01 Jun 2013
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/aling.60.2013.2.1
Keywords:
aging; recall; content; disfluencies; speech errors
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During natural ageing, hormonal, psychological, and cognitive changes affect speech production and speech perception. The aim of this study is to investigate the differences in the performance of young-old (60- to 74-year-old) versus old-old (75- to 90-year-old) speakers in oral summaries of stories to which they listened previously and how those results relate to the speech of young adult speakers. For the present study, we have selected narrative recalls performed by fifteen subjects of each age group from BEA (The Hungarian Spontaneous Speech Database). We analysed the contents of those samples, pauses, disfluencies, and speech errors. We found important differences in the oral summaries between young-old and old-old speakers. Considerable individual differences were also attested within each age group (in disfluencies, pauses, etc.). The results suggest a certain degree of dissimilarity in the recalls across age groups, concerning peculiarities of language use along with the expected phonetic and psycholinguistic features.

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