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| Experimentally disentangling what's beneficial about elderspeak from what's not | | Author(s) | Susan Kemper, Tamara Harden |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 14, no 4, December 1999 |
| Pages | pp 656-670 |
| Keywords | Cognitive processes ; Communication ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Elderspeak, or secondary baby talk, is often observed in interactions between young adults and older adults. This paper reports on three studies which evaluated different varieties of elderspeak using a referential communication task. Experiment 1 compared the effects of syntactic simplifications and semantic elaborations. Experiment 2 contrasted syntactic simplifications and prosodic exaggerations. Providing semantic elaborations and reducing the use of subordinate and embedded clauses seemed to benefit older adults and improve their performance on the referential communication task, whereas reducing sentence length, slowing speaking rate, and using high pitch did not. The use of short sentences, a slow rate of speaking, and high pitch resulted in older adults' reporting more communication problems. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-000403410 A |
| Classmark | DA: U: 7T |
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