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Language Production Across the Life Span

Special Issue Of "Language And Cognitive Processes"

• Edited by Antje Meyer, Linda Wheeldon

• Price: $122.50 $110.25
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 360
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 17th November 2005
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-985-1

About the Book

Most current theories of lexical access in speech production are designed to capture the behaviour of young adults - typically college students. However, this group represents a minority of the world's speakers and an integral part of speech production is the observation of how young adults’ speech evolves throughout the course of their life.

Taking a much broader approach to the subject, this special issue includes papers on the development of speech in childhood, adolescence and adulthood to determine how each group’s speech production is affected by one another. An essential tool for language production researchers, this volume encourages them to consider their theories and findings against the wider context of language development across the lifespan.

Table of Contents

A. Meyer, L. Wheeldon, Word and Sentence Production Across the Lifespan. H. Behrens, Input-Output Relationship in First Language Acquisition. L. Goffman, L. Heisler, R. Chakraborty, Mapping of Prosodic Structure onto Words and Phrases in Children's and Adult's Speech Production. J.I. Vousden, E.A. Maylor, Speech Errors Across the Lifespan. A. Roelofs, Functional Architecture of Naming Dice, Digits and Number Words. N.O. Schiller, B.M. Jansma, J. Peters, W.J.M. Levelt, Monitoring Metrical Stress in Polysyllabic Words. C. Finocchiaro, A. Caramazza, The Production of Pronominal Clitics: Implications for Theories of Lexical Access. R.J. Hartsuiker, Language Production and Working Memory: the Case of Subject-verb Agreement. P. Bonin, N. Malardier, A. Méot, M. Fayol, The Scope of Advance Planning in Written Picture Naming. L. Mortensen, A.S. Meyer, G.W. Humphreys, Age-related Effects on Speech Production: A Review. D. Spieler, Z. Griffin, The Influence of Age on the Time Course of Word Preparation in Multiword Utterances. L.J.P. Altmann, S. Kemper, Effects of Age, Animacy and Activation Order on Sentence Production.