Background Ageing refers to the natural and physiological changes that individuals
experience over the years. This process also involves modifications in terms of …

Background Behavioural and neuropsychological studies on elderly populations
concentrate on many aspects of cognitive functioning, but significantly less research …

Among all aspects of the linguistic and communicative competence, pragmatics seems
especially vulnerable in aging, due also to cognitive decline. However, pragmatics has …

This article presents a multimodal video corpus with the principal aim to model and predict
the effects of aging in Mild Cognitive Impairment situation on pragmatic and communicative …

The ability to communicate effectively allows people to solve several vital functions in
everyday life, such as establishing and maintaining social relationships, obtaining health …

Context This corpus-based study presents a multimodal analysis of verbal pragmatic
markers and non-verbal pragmatic markers in elderly people with Mild Cognitive Impairment …

Research investigating pragmatic abilities in healthy aging suggests that both production
and comprehension might be compromised; however, it is not clear how pragmatic abilities …

The role of executive functions in supporting the pragmatics of communication has been
extensively examined in clinical populations, but is still under-explored in healthy aging. In …

A change in communicative ability, among various changes arising during the aging
process, may cause various difficulties for the elderly. This study aims to develop a Geriatric …

Normally, aging adults experience a wide range of changes in sensory abilities, cognition,
and language. Pragmatic language ability, or social use of language, declines primarily as a …