Étude comparative du langage spontané d'adultes jeunes et âgés
(1992) L’année psychologique : revue de psychologie cognitive — Vol. 92, n° 4, p. 511-526 (1992)
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- The present study aimed at analyzing and comparing the spontaneous oral discourse from 30 young adults (mean age = 24 years) and 30 old adults (mean age = 70 years), both groups performing at a comparable level on various cognitive tasks. Indeed, both young and old subjects had identical scores on various Vocabulary, Short term and Working memory tests. A detailed comparison of their respective spontaneous language showed a few slight differences (all in favour of the elder Subjects) : the old subjects' discourse appears to present a slightly higher lexical variety, a higher mean length of utterances and more right-branching relative clauses. Basically, however, the observations gained in the present study clearly showe that normal aging is not systematically associated with any decline in language production. These observations are further interpreted as supporting, at least indirectly, the general hypothesis claiming that increased limitations of working memory capacity are responsible for language alterations (especially in syntactic elaboration) that have been reported in the literature on cognitive aging.
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Hupet, M., Nef, F., & Maroy, M. (1992). Étude comparative du langage spontané d’adultes jeunes et âgés. L’année psychologique : revue de psychologie cognitive, 92(4), 511-526. https://doi.org/10.3406/psy.1992.29536 (Original work published 1992)