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Discourse Compression of Elderly Adults in a Dyadic Context

Author(s) -

Lauren L. Saling,

Kathryn Woodcock,

Michael M. Saling

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

the journals of gerontology series b

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.578

H-Index - 150

eISSN - 1758-5368

pISSN - 1079-5014

DOI - 10.1093/geronb/gbu087

Subject(s) - dialogic , fluency , cohesion (chemistry) , psychology , narrative , group cohesiveness , context (archaeology) , repetition (rhetorical device) , developmental psychology , social psychology , linguistics , pedagogy , history , chemistry , philosophy , mathematics education , organic chemistry , archaeology

Elderly adults demonstrate a reduced ability to produce increasingly concise and coherent discourse with repetition when compared with their younger counterparts. We explored whether discourse efficiency and quality would increase with story retelling in a dialogic context.

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