Use of elderspeak by young and older adults to impaired and unimpaired listeners
Use of elderspeak by young and older adults to impaired and unimpaired listeners
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DOI：
10.1076/anec.5.1.43.22
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发表时间：
1998-03-01
影响因子：
1.9
通讯作者：
Billington, C
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作者：
Kemper, S;Ferrell, P;Billington, C
这项研究调查了年轻人和老年人对老年人口语（一种针对老年听众的语音语域）的使用情况。使用了模拟范式：参与者被要求提供一套在地图上绘制的路线导航的说明，并向他们提供照片和简短的传记描述，这些听众被描述为健康、活跃的独立生活成年人，或患有认知问题的老年人，包括记忆衰退、迷失方向和无法认出家庭成员。比较指令的流畅性、韵律、语法复杂性、语义内容和话语风格。此外，参与者还被要求为听众评价各种言语调节的适当性，例如使用长句、夸张的语调和重复。结果表明，年轻人和老年人都认为言语调节适合用于认知障碍的老年人。年轻人实际上使用这种言语调节来应对参考性交流任务，而老年人则为受损的听众采用了范围更有限的言语调节。
This study examined the use of elderspeak, a speech register targeted at older listeners, by young and older adults. A simulation paradigm was used: The participants were asked to provide a set of instructions for navigating a route drawn on a map and they were given photographs and short biographical descriptions of listeners who were described either as healthy, active adults living independently or as older adults who were experiencing cognitive problems including memory lapses, disorientation, and failing to recognize family members. The fluency, prosody, grammatical complexity, semantic content, and discourse style of the instructions were compared. In addition, the participants were asked to rate the appropriateness of various speech accommodations, such as using long sentences, exaggerated intonation, and repetition, for the listeners. The results indicated that both young and older adults rated the speech accommodations as appropriate for use with cognitively impaired older adults. The young adults actually used such speech accommodations in response to the referential communication task whereas the older adults adopted a more limited range of speech accommodations for the impaired listeners.