Elderspeak: Speech accommodations to older adults

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1975 • 82,784 citations

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1976 • 6,072 citations

Toward a model of text comprehension and production.

1978 • 4,734 citations

Certain Language Skills in Children

1957 • 830 citations

Handbook of Language and Social Psychology

1992 • 705 citations

Psycholinguistic and social psychological components of communication by and with the elderly

1986 • 524 citations

Accommodating the elderly: Invoking and extending a theory

1988 • 515 citations

Reading rate and retention as a function of the number of propositions in the base structure of sentences

1973 • 433 citations

Speed of Processing in Normal Aging: Effects of Speech Rate, Linguistic Structure, and Processing Time

1985 • 227 citations

The paralanguage of caregiving: Baby talk to the institutionalized aged.

1981 • 213 citations

The paralanguage of caregiving: Baby talk to the institutionalized aged.

1981 • 212 citations

Life-span changes to adults' language: Effects of memory and genre

1989 • 167 citations

Process and strategy in memory for speech among younger and older adults.

1987 • 148 citations

Telling stories: The structure of adults' narratives

1990 • 123 citations

Secondary baby talk: Judgments by institutionalized elderly and their caregivers.

1983 • 121 citations

Competing complexity metrics and adults' production of complex sentences

1992 • 117 citations

Secondary baby talk: Judgments by institutionalized elderly and their caregivers.

1983 • 116 citations

Spoken words : effects of situation and social group on oral word usage and frequency

1984 • 113 citations

Verbal response modes of baby talk and other speech at institutions for the aged

1986 • 110 citations

Process and strategy in memory for speech among younger and older adults.

1987 • 106 citations

How much and how fast: Rapid processing of spoken language in later adulthood.

1986 • 103 citations

Evaluative perceptions of patronizing speech addressed to elders.

1991 • 101 citations

Evaluative perceptions of patronizing speech addressed to elders.

1991 • 93 citations

A Life-Span Look at Person Perception and its Relationship to Communicative Interaction

1975 • 91 citations

Age Differences in Processing Information From Television News: The Effects of Bisensory Augmentation

1990 • 88 citations

Does ‘elderspeak’ work? the effect of intonation and stress on comprehension and recall of spoken discourse in old age

1986 • 87 citations

Conceptual and empirical bases of readability formulas

1986 • 77 citations

How much and how fast: Rapid processing of spoken language in later adulthood.

1986 • 76 citations

Age and Decision Strategies in Running Memory for Speech: Effects of Prosody and Linguistic Structure

1989 • 74 citations

Adults' diaries: Changes made to written narratives across the life span

1990 • 72 citations

Politeness in context: Intergenerational issues (Review article)

1988 • 67 citations

Speech-processing capacity in young and older adults: A dual-task study.

1991 • 64 citations

Attitudes Toward Younger and Older Adult Speakers: Effects of Varying Speech Rates

1982 • 62 citations

Speech-processing capacity in young and older adults: A dual-task study.

1991 • 47 citations

Organizational strategies in immediate recall of rapid speech by young and elderly adults

1986 • 30 citations

Evaluations of older and younger adult speakers: Influence of communication effectiveness and noise.

1990 • 29 citations

Evaluations of older and younger adult speakers: Influence of communication effectiveness and noise.

1990 • 29 citations

Information Seeking across the Life Span

1988 • 16 citations

The Influence of Setting and Task Partner on the Performance of Adults over Age 65 on a Communications Task

1982 • 8 citations