With the population of older adults expected to grow rapidly over the next two decades, it
has become increasingly important to advance research efforts to elucidate the mechanisms …

While there is a growing body of research on second language acquisition (SLA) in children,
adolescents, young and more mature adults, much remains to be explored about how adults …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

As people age, they learn and store new knowledge in their semantic memory. Despite
learning a tremendous amount of information, people can still recall information relevant to …

We conducted a comprehensive literature review of studies of word retrieval in connected
speech in healthy aging and reviewed relevant aphasia research that could shed light on …

Speech disfluencies such as repeated words and pauses provide information about the
cognitive systems underlying speech production. Understanding whether older age leads to …

The aim of this study was to examine whether performance on phonemic and semantic
fluency tasks follows similar lifespan trajectories. Data from 1212 Hebrew-speakers aged 5 …

What can tests of single-word production tell us about word retrieval in connected speech?
We examined this question in 20 people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and in 20 cognitively …

Background Vocabulary scores increase until approximately age 65 years and then remain
stable or decrease slightly, unlike scores on tests of other cognitive abilities that decline …

Objective: The present study investigated the ability of the Multilingual Naming Test (MINT),
a picture naming test recently added to the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center's …